Parse Server vulnerable to SQL Injection via dot-notation sub-key name in `Increment` operation on PostgreSQL

Description

A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the PostgreSQL storage adapter when processing Increment operations on nested object fields using dot notation (e.g., stats.counter). The sub-key name is interpolated directly into SQL string literals without escaping.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **< 8.6.31

  >= 9.0.0-alpha.1, < 9.6.0-alpha.5**

• Patched version(s): **8.6.31

  9.6.0-alpha.5**

References

• GHSA-gqpp-xgvh-9h7h
• CVE-2026-31871
• CWE-89
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Parse Server vulnerable to SQL injection via `Increment` operation on nested object field in PostgreSQL - CVE-2026-31856
• Parse Server: SQL injection via dot-notation field name in PostgreSQL - CVE-2026-31840
• Parse Server has a SQL injection via query field name when using PostgreSQL - CVE-2026-32234
• Parse Server vulnerable to LDAP injection via unsanitized user input in DN and group filter construction - CVE-2026-31828

Tags:

npm

parse-server