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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-03-27 07:14

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Parse Server: Denial of service via unindexed database query for unconfigured auth providers

Details

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to versions 8.6.58 and 9.6.0, an unauthenticated attacker can cause denial of service by sending authentication requests with arbitrary, unconfigured provider names. The server executes a database query for each unconfigured provider before rejecting the request, and since no database index exists for unconfigured providers, each request triggers a full collection scan on the user database. This can be parallelized to saturate database resources. This issue has been patched in versions 8.6.58 and 9.6.0

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        "name": "parse",
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          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-33538"
  ],
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    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
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  "id": "BIT-parse-2026-33538",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2026-03-27T07:14:39.195Z",
  "references": [
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    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33538"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Parse Server: Denial of service via unindexed database query for unconfigured auth providers"
}

CVE-2026-33538 (GCVE-0-2026-33538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-24 18:24 – Updated: 2026-03-24 18:37

Title

Parse Server: Denial of service via unindexed database query for unconfigured auth providers

Summary

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to versions 8.6.58 and 9.6.0-alpha.52, an unauthenticated attacker can cause denial of service by sending authentication requests with arbitrary, unconfigured provider names. The server executes a database query for each unconfigured provider before rejecting the request, and since no database index exists for unconfigured providers, each request triggers a full collection scan on the user database. This can be parallelized to saturate database resources. This issue has been patched in versions 8.6.58 and 9.6.0-alpha.52.

Severity

8.7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-03-24 18:37 UTC

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/s…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/p…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/p…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/c…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/c…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
parse-community	parse-server	Affected: < 8.6.58 Affected: >= 9.0.0, < 9.6.0-alpha.52

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