# CVE-2025-68150: Parse Server has Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Instagram OAuth Adapter

- Also known as: GHSA-3F5F-XGRJ-97PF, BIT-PARSE-2025-68150
- Severity: CVSS 8.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.6.2, 9.1.1-alpha.1
- Published: 2025-12-16 · Updated: 2025-12-17

## Affected

- parse-community parse-server: fixed in 8.6.2; from 9.0.0, fixed in 9.1.1-alpha.1
- parse-server (npm): from 9.0.0, fixed in 9.1.1-alpha.1
- parse-server (npm): fixed in 8.6.2

## Description

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to versions 8.6.2 and 9.1.1-alpha.1, the Instagram authentication adapter allows clients to specify a custom API URL via the `apiURL` parameter in `authData`. This enables SSRF attacks and possibly authentication bypass if malicious endpoints return fake responses to validate unauthorized users. This is fixed in versions 8.6.2 and 9.1.1-alpha.1 by hardcoding the Instagram Graph API URL `https://graph.instagram.com` and ignoring client-provided `apiURL` values. No known workarounds are available.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on parse-community parse-server, parse-server, upgrade to a fixed version (8.6.2, 9.1.1-alpha.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/security/advisories/GHSA-3f5f-xgrj-97pf
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/pull/9988
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/pull/9989

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