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CVE-2026-30949GHSA-48MH-J4P5-7J9VBIT-PARSE-2026-30949

Parse Server is missing audience validation in Keycloak authentication adapter

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 8.6.18, 9.5.2-alpha.5
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to 9.5.2-alpha.5 and 8.6.18, the Keycloak authentication adapter does not validate the azp (authorized party) claim of Keycloak access tokens against the configured client-id. A valid access token issued by the same Keycloak realm for a different client application can be used to authenticate as any user on the Parse Server that uses the Keycloak adapter. This enables cross-application account takeover in multi-client Keycloak realms. All Parse Server deployments that use the Keycloak authentication adapter with a Keycloak realm that has multiple client applications are affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.5.2-alpha.5 and 8.6.18.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • parse-community parse-server

    fixed in 8.6.18

  • parse-servernpm

    From 9.0.0 · fixed in 9.5.2-alpha.5

  • parse-servernpm

    fixed in 8.6.18

References 3

GitHub · parse-community/parse-server