GraphQL: Security breach on Viewer query

Description

An authenticated user using the viewer GraphQL query can bypass all read security on his User object and can also bypass all objects linked via relation or Pointer on his User object.

Recommendation

Update the parse-server package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 3.5.0, < 4.3.0
• Patched version(s): 4.3.0

References

• GHSA-236h-rqv8-8q73
• CVE-2020-15126
• CWE-863
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• node-forge has ASN.1 Unbounded Recursion - CVE-2025-66031
• Parse Server Vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in File Upload via URI Format - CVE-2025-64430
• Parse Server before v3.4.1 vulnerable to Denial of Service - CVE-2019-1020012
• Parse Server exposes the data schema via GraphQL API - CVE-2025-53364

Tags:

npm

parse-server