Parse Server stores password in plain text

Description

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. In Parse Server before version 4.5.0, user passwords involved in LDAP authentication are stored in cleartext. This is fixed in version 4.5.0 by stripping password after authentication to prevent cleartext password storage.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 4.5.0
• Patched version(s): 4.5.0

References

• GHSA-4w46-w44m-3jq3
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2020-26288
• CWE-312
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A4
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• static-server Path Traversal vulnerability - CVE-2023-26152
• chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10579
• 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