parse-server up to 7.5.1/8.0.1 improper authentication

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in parse-server up to 7.5.1/8.0.1. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation results in improper authentication. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-30168. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in parse-server up to 7.5.1/8.0.1. Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to 7.5.2 and 8.0.2, the 3rd party authentication handling of Parse Server allows the authentication credentials of some specific authentication providers to be used across multiple Parse Server apps. For example, if a user signed up using the same authentication provider in two unrelated Parse Server apps, the credentials stored by one app can be used to authenticate the same user in the other app. Note that this only affects Parse Server apps that specifically use an affected 3rd party authentication provider for user authentication, for example by setting the Parse Server option auth to configure a Parse Server authentication adapter. The fix of this vulnerability requires to upgrade Parse Server to a version that includes the bug fix, as well as upgrade the client app to send a secure payload, which is different from the previous insecure payload. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.5.2 and 8.0.2.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-30168 since 03/17/2025. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 7.5.2 or 8.0.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 2ff9c71030bce3aada0a00fbceedeb7ae2c8a41e is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• parse-server

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• 7.5.0
• 7.5.1
• 8.0.0
• 8.0.1

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• open-source

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