CVE-2026-33538

Published: Mar 24, 2026 Last Modified: Mar 24, 2026
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HIGH 8,7
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Confidentiality: N/A
Integrity: N/A
Availability: N/A

Description

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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.

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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Common Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability Access Control Other
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu) Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory) Dos: Resource Consumption (Other) Bypass Protection Mechanism Other
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
View CWE Details
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/commit/40eb442e02672986730007d0…
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/commit/fbac847499e57f243315c5fc…
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/pull/10270
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/pull/10271
https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/security/advisories/GHSA-g4cf-x…