CVE-2026-33538
Parse Server: Denial of service via unindexed database query for unconfigured auth providers
At a glance Severity HIGH 8.7 EPSS EPSS 0.42 % · percentile 36 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2026-03-24 Updated 2026-03-24 Assigner GitHub_M NVD status Analyzed Description Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to versions 8.6.58 and 9.6.0-alpha.52, an unauthenticated attacker can cause denial of service by sending authentication requests with arbitrary, unconfigured provider names. The server executes a database query for each unconfigured provider before rejecting the request, and since no database index exists for unconfigured providers, each request triggers a full collection scan on the user database. This can be parallelized to saturate database resources. This issue has been patched in versions 8.6.58 and 9.6.0-alpha.52.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 4.0 HIGH 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N GitHub_M CVSS 4.0 HIGH 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary) CVSS 3.1 HIGH 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
Weaknesses (CWE)
Advisories GHSA-g4cf-xj29-wqqr — Parse Server: Denial of Service via unindexed database query for unconfigured auth providersEuropean references
Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* < 8.6.58cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* ≥ 9.0.0 < 9.6.0cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha1:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha10:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha11:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha12:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha13:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha14:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha15:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha16:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha17:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha18:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha19:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha2:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha20:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha21:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha22:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha23:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha24:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha25:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha26:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha27:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha28:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha29:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha3:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha30:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha31:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha32:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha33:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha34:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha35:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha36:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha37:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha38:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha39:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha4:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha40:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha41:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha42:*:*:*:node.js:*:*cpe:2.3:a:parseplatform:parse-server:9.6.0:alpha43:*:*:*:node.js:*:*+13 more Affected products
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