CVE-2026-31856: Parseplatform Parse-Server

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. 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 amount value is interpolated directly into the SQL query without parameterization or type validation. An attacker who can send write requests to the Parse Server REST API can inject arbitrary SQL subqueries to read any data from the database, bypassing CLPs and ACLs. MongoDB deployments are not affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.6.0-alpha.3 and 8.6.29.

Affected products

• Parseplatform Parse-Server: before 8.6.29 (fixed in 8.6.29); from 9.0.0, before 9.6.0 (fixed in 9.6.0); version 9.6.0 only

Published 2026-03-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.