CVE-2022-36079
Parse Server vulnerable to brute force guessing of user sensitive data via search patterns
- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 1.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 30% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Internal fields (keys used internally by Parse Server, prefixed by `_`) and protected fields (user defined) can be used as query constraints. Internal and protected fields are removed by Parse Server and are only returned to the client using a valid master key. However, using query constraints, these fields can be guessed by enumerating until Parse Server, prior to versions 4.10.14 or 5.2.5, returns a response object. The patch available in versions 4.10.14 and 5.2.5 requires the maser key to use internal and protected fields as query constraints. As a workaround, implement a Parse Cloud Trigger `beforeFind` and manually remove the query constraints.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 54 days later
· 54 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Affected products
parse-community · parse-server
- affected < 4.10.14
- affected >= 5.0.0, < 5.2.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmparse-serverGHSA-2m6g-crv8-p3c6 (opens in a new tab)
References
References7
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/security/advisories/GHSA-2m6g-crv8-p3c6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/issues/8143 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/issues/8144 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/commit/634c44acd18f6ee6ec60fac89a2b602d92799bec (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/commit/e39d51bd329cd978589983bd659db46e1d45aad4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/releases/tag/4.10.14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/releases/tag/5.2.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-6666 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-2m6g-crv8-p3c6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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