CVE-2026-33538: Parseplatform Parse-Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.8% 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. 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.

Affected products

• Parseplatform Parse-Server: before 8.6.58 (fixed in 8.6.58); from 9.0.0, before 9.6.0 (fixed in 9.6.0); version 9.6.0 only

Published 2026-03-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.