Remote code execution via MongoDB BSON parser through prototype pollution

Description

An attacker can use this prototype pollution sink to trigger a remote code execution through the MongoDB BSON parser.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **>= 5.0.0, < 5.3.1

  < 4.10.18**

• Patched version(s): **5.3.1

  4.10.18**

References

• GHSA-prm5-8g2m-24gg
• CVE-2022-39396
• CWE-1321
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Parse Server is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via Cloud Code Webhooks - CVE-2022-41879
• vue-template-compiler vulnerable to client-side Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) - CVE-2024-6783
• Parse Server before v3.4.1 vulnerable to Denial of Service - CVE-2019-1020012
• LangChain serialization injection vulnerability enables secret extraction - CVE-2025-68665

Tags:

npm

parse-server