GHSA-p2w6-rmh7-w8q3High

Parse Server has SQL Injection through aggregate and distinct field names in PostgreSQL adapter

Published
March 24, 2026
Last Modified
March 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

An attacker with master key access can execute arbitrary SQL statements on the PostgreSQL database by injecting SQL metacharacters into field name parameters of the aggregate $group pipeline stage or the distinct operation. This allows privilege escalation from Parse Server application-level administrator to PostgreSQL database-level access.

Only Parse Server deployments using PostgreSQL are affected. MongoDB deployments are not affected.

Patches

Field names in the aggregate $group._id object values and distinct dot-notation parameters are now validated to only contain alphanumeric characters and underscores, preventing SQL injection via the :raw interpolation used in the PostgreSQL storage adapter.

Workarounds

No workaround. Upgrade to a patched version.

🎯 Affected products2

  • npm/parse-server:>= 9.0.0, < 9.6.0-alpha.53
  • npm/parse-server:< 8.6.59

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