parse-server new anonymous user session acts as if it's created with password

Description

Developers that use the REST API to signup users and also allow users to login anonymously. When an anonymous user is first signed up using REST, the server creates session incorrectly, particularly the authProvider field in _Session class under createdWith shows the user logged in creating a password.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 4.5.2
• Patched version(s): 4.5.2

References

• GHSA-23r4-5mxp-c7g5
• CVE-2021-39138
• CWE-287
• CWE-863
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6
• OWASP 2021-A7

Related Issues

• Parse Server exposes the data schema via GraphQL API - CVE-2025-53364
• Parse Server has an OAuth login vulnerability - CVE-2025-30168
• Parse Server before v3.4.1 vulnerable to Denial of Service - CVE-2019-1020012
• Vue I18n Allows Prototype Pollution in `handleFlatJson` (GHSA-p2ph-7g93-hw3m) - CVE-2025-27597

Tags:

npm

parse-server