CVE-2026-33538 (GCVE-0-2026-33538)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-24 18:24
Modified
2026-03-24 18:37
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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.
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| parse-community | parse-server |
Version: < 8.6.58 Version: >= 9.0.0, < 9.6.0-alpha.52 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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