GHSA-2xgg-r2wc-c5r2

Budibase: MySQL DESCRIBE Backtick Injection via multipleStatements in Database Connector

Published

2026-07-24

Modified

2026-07-24

Sources

github-advisory

Summary

### Summary **This is a related but independently fixable vulnerability to GHSA-qqf5-x7mj-v43p (PostgreSQL SQL injection), reported in the same original disclosure and split per GitHub CNA guidance (rule 4.2.11) since it affects a separate integration, has a distinct attack precondition, and requires a separate patch.** The MySQL integration enables `multipleStatements: true` on the connection, permitting semicolon-separated multi-statement execution. During table introspection, table names retrieved from `INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES` are interpolated into a `DESCRIBE` query wrapped in backticks, but embedded backticks in the table name are never escaped — allowing a malicious table name to break out and inject a second, attacker-controlled statement. ### Details **Vulnerable Code:** File: `packages/server/src/integrations/mysql.ts`, lines 172, 305 ```typescript this.config = { ...config, multipleStatements: true, ... } // line 172 ... { sql: `DESCRIBE \`${tableName}\`;` } // line 305 — backtick NOT escaped ``` Because `multipleStatements` is enabled, any statement appended after the backtick break-out executes as a second query in the same round trip. ### Step-by-Step Reproduction 1. An attacker with the ability to create tables in the target MySQL database (e.g. a lower-privileged database user, or a malicious actor in a multi-tenant database) creates a table named: ``foo`; DROP TABLE users; --`` 2. In Budibase, an administrator triggers schema introspection for that database (e.g. opening the datasource or refreshing its table list). 3. Budibase reads the malicious table name from `INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES` and interpolates it into the `DESCRIBE` query. 4. The unescaped backtick terminates the identifier early, and the semicolon-separated payload (enabled by `multipleStatements: true`) executes as a second statement. ### Impact Arbitrary SQL execution triggered during routine schema discovery. Unlike the PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server findings, this does not require the attacker to control the Budibase datasource configuration directly — only the ability to create a maliciously named table in the underlying database beforehand, with an administrator's normal use of the introspection feature serving as the trigger.

Affected packages

Remediation: No patched version is listed by GitHub.

References

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2xgg-r2wc-c5r2