Budibase up to 3.39.x Datasource missing encryption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Budibase up to 3.39.x. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Datasource. The manipulation results in missing encryption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-72857. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Budibase up to 3.39.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown functionality of the component Datasource. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing encryption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-311. The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Budibase before 3.40.0 fails to redact datasource credentials stored in STRING typed fields, allowing authenticated users to read MongoDB connection strings and Firebase private keys in plaintext. Attackers with table read permissions can retrieve datasource configurations through the read API to obtain live backend database credentials and service account keys.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-72857 since 08/10/2026. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1600 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 3.40.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Name

• Budibase

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13
• 3.14
• 3.15
• 3.16
• 3.17
• 3.18
• 3.19
• 3.20
• 3.21
• 3.22
• 3.23
• 3.24
• 3.25
• 3.26
• 3.27
• 3.28
• 3.29
• 3.30
• 3.31
• 3.32
• 3.33
• 3.34
• 3.35
• 3.36
• 3.37
• 3.38
• 3.39

Website

• Product: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/

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