CVE-2023-36475

Parse Server prior to versions 8.6.67 and 9.7.0-alpha.11 has a vulnerability where an attacker can bypass Cloud Function validator access controls by appending "prototype.constructor" to the function name in the URL. This causes all access control enforcement to be skipped, allowing unauthenticated callers to invoke protected Cloud Functions.

Parse Server prior to versions 8.6.3 and 9.1.1-alpha.4 is vulnerable to an attack where an unauthenticated attacker can forge a Google authentication token with 'alg: "none"', allowing them to log in as any user linked to a Google account without knowing their credentials.

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that runs Node.js. In versions prior to 8.6.0-alpha.2, a GitHub CI workflow is triggered in a way that grants the GitHub Actions workflow elevated permissions, giving it access to GitHub secrets and write permissions which are defined in the workflow. Code from a fork or lifecycle scripts is potentially included. Only the repository's CI/CD infrastructure is affected, including any public GitHub forks with GitHub Actions enabled. This issue is fixed in version 8.6.0-alpha.2 and commits 6b9f896 and e3d27fe.

Parse Server before 8.6.98 and 9.0.0 before 9.10.3-alpha.1 does not enforce the create and addField class-level permissions of the _Session class when creating sessions. An authenticated user or anyone holding that user's session token can send POST requests to /sessions or /classes/_Session to create additional sessions and add fields to _Session; these sessions are not revoked when the original session is logged out.

Parse Server before 8.6.99 and 9.0.0 before 9.10.3-alpha.2 evaluates checks against the target account during a user update before authorizing the caller, and reflects their outcome in the response. An unauthorized caller, with or without a session, can confirm guessed usernames or emails and, when passwordPolicy.maxPasswordHistory or doNotAllowUsername is set, guessed current or previous passwords, bypassing account lockout.

Parse Server before 8.6.97 and 9.0.0 before 9.10.2-alpha.6 does not handle errors raised while sending verification or password reset emails, causing the server process to exit. A client holding only the public application keys can sign up, request a verification email, or request a password reset while the mail provider rejects, rate limits, or is unavailable, crashing the server.

Parse Server 5.4.0 before 8.6.96 and 9.0.0 before 9.10.2-alpha.5 shares transactional batch state across concurrent requests, letting any client's transactional batch request interfere with other clients' database writes. On PostgreSQL or MongoDB replica sets and sharded clusters, other clients' acknowledged writes are rolled back if the batch fails, and PostgreSQL transactions can remain open indefinitely, causing subsequent writes to fail.

Parse Server before 8.6.93 and 9.0.0 before 9.10.1-alpha.13 does not enforce identity-scoped protectedFields (authenticated, role, or per-user groups) on count queries using the $relatedTo operator, exposing the size of protected Relation fields. An authenticated user who can read the owning object can combine counts with an objectId constraint as a membership oracle to reveal confidential memberships such as private groups or block lists.

Parse Server vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers with public Application Id and client key to replay an introspection query from Apollo Server's cache to retrieve the GraphQL schema, including private class and field names. The introspection control is only applied to directly sent operations, not to those from the persisted query cache.

Parse Server before 8.6.95 and 9.0.0 before 9.10.2-alpha.3 does not resolve file references lacking a URL before passing objects to Cloud Code triggers and LiveQuery, causing an uncaught exception that terminates the process. Attackers able to write to a class with Cloud Code save, find, or delete triggers or LiveQuery enabled, including unauthenticated users when public write access or sign-up is allowed, can crash the server or break subsequent requests.