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SCA: security update for parse-server (GHSA-5f92-jrq3-28rc)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 438600

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.7 and 8.6.20, Parse Server's internal tables, which store Relation field mappings
 such as role memberships, can be directly accessed via the REST API or GraphQL API by any client using
 only the application key. No master key is required. An attacker can create, read, update, or delete
 records in any internal relationship table. Exploiting this allows the attacker to inject themselves into
 any Parse Role, gaining all permissions associated with that role, including full read, write, and delete
 access to classes protected by role-based Class-Level Permissions (CLP). Similarly, writing to any such
 table that backs a Relation field used in a pointerFields CLP bypasses that access control. This
 vulnerability is fixed in 9.5.2-alpha.7 and 8.6.20. (CVE-2026-30966)

Solution

Update the parse-server library and its related packages to version 8.6.20 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5f92-jrq3-28rc

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 438600

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/11/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.39

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.7

Temporal Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-30966

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-30966

cwe: CWE-284