Parse Server option `masterKeyIps` vulnerability to IP spoofing

Description

Parse Server uses the request header x-forwarded-for to determine the client IP address. If Parse Server doesn’t run behind a proxy server, then a client can set this header and Parse Server will trust the value of the header. The incorrect client IP address will be used by various features in Parse Server.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 5.4.1
• Patched version(s): 5.4.1

References

• GHSA-vm5r-c87r-pf6x
• CVE-2023-22474
• CWE-290
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6
• OWASP 2021-A7

Related Issues

• Parse Server has a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via Unescaped Mustache Template Variables - CVE-2025-68115
• Parse Server has an OAuth login vulnerability - CVE-2025-30168
• Parse Server vulnerable to remote code execution via MongoDB BSON parser through prototype pollution - CVE-2023-36475
• Parse Server may crash when uploading file without extension - CVE-2023-46119

Tags:

npm

parse-server