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

• LiveQuery publishes user session tokens in parse-server - CVE-2021-41109
• parse-server's session object properties can be updated by foreign user if object ID is known - CVE-2022-39225
• Parse Server stores password in plain text - CVE-2020-26288
• Parse Server vulnerable to brute force guessing of user sensitive data via search patterns - CVE-2022-36079

Tags:

npm

parse-server