Parse Server is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via Instagram OAuth Adapter

Description

The Instagram authentication adapter allows clients to specify a custom API URL via the apiURL parameter in authData. This enables SSRF attacks and possibly authentication bypass if malicious endpoints return fake responses to validate unauthorized users.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **>= 9.0.0, < 9.1.1-alpha.1

  < 8.6.2**

• Patched version(s): **9.1.1-alpha.1

  8.6.2**

References

• GHSA-3f5f-xgrj-97pf
• CVE-2025-68150
• CWE-918
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A10
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

parse-server