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parse-server vulnerabilities

An express module providing a Parse-compatible API server

Licenses: BSD-2-Clause | BSD-3-Clause | Apache-2.0

Published: 13 years ago Last updated: 14 days ago Latest version: 9.5.1 Latest non-vulnerable version: 9.6.0-alpha.55

npm

GitHub

71/100

securitySecurity issues found
popularityPopular
maintenanceHealthy
communityActive

Maintenance

HEALTHY

Commit Frequency

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Open Issues: 373
Open PR: 111
New PRS: 1
Last Release: 14 days ago
Last Commit: 1 days ago
Maintainers: 5

Further analysis of the maintenance status of parse-server based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that parse-server demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Popularity

POPULAR

Weekly downloads (16.6k)

GitHub Stars: 21.4k
Forks: 4.8k
Contributors: 320

The npm package parse-server receives a total of 16,551 downloads a week. As such, we scored parse-server popularity level to be Popular.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package parse-server, we found that it has been starred 21,392 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

ACTIVE

Readme.md: No
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 320
Funding: Yes
LICENSE: Apache-2.0

A good and healthy external contribution signal for parse-server project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

How about a good first contribution to this project? It seems that parse-server is missing a README file.

License

BSD-2-Clause>=1.0.0 <2.0.2;

BSD-3-Clause>=2.0.2 <6.0.0-alpha.31;

Apache-2.0>=6.0.0-alpha.31;

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Direct Vulnerabilities

Known vulnerabilities in the parse-server package. This does not include vulnerabilities belonging to this package’s dependencies.

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Security

SECURITY ISSUES FOUND

Show only direct vulnerabilities in latest version

Vulnerability	Vulnerable Version
H Missing Authentication for Critical Function	<8.6.52>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.41
M Information Exposure	<8.6.51>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.40
H Information Exposure	<8.6.50>=9.0.0 <9.6.0-alpha.35
H Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation	<8.6.47>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.24
M Weak Authentication	<8.6.49>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.29
L Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition	<8.6.48>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.28
M Prototype Pollution	<8.6.44>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.20
H Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input	<8.6.43>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.19
M Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes	<8.6.42>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.17
H Uncontrolled Recursion	<8.6.45>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.21
H Cross-site Scripting (XSS)	<8.6.41>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.15
M Missing Authentication for Critical Function	<8.6.40>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.14
H Incorrect Authorization	<8.6.21>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.8
M Incorrect Authorization	<8.6.18>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.5
M Function Call With Incorrect Order of Arguments	>=8.0.2 <8.6.39>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.13
C Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic	<8.6.38>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.12
C Race Condition	<8.6.37>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.11
M Information Exposure	<8.6.35>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.9
H SQL Injection	<8.6.36>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.10
C Missing Authorization	<8.6.20>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.7
M Insufficiently Protected Credentials	<8.6.22>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.9
H Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling	<8.6.15>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.2
C SQL Injection	<8.6.31>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.5
H Incorrect Authorization	<8.6.16>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.3
M Improper Control of Interaction Frequency	<8.6.23>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.10
C Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release	<8.6.33>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.7
C Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Data Query Logic	<8.6.14>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.1
H Incorrect Authorization	<8.6.32>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.6
M Information Exposure	<8.6.34>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.8
M Cross-site Scripting (XSS)	<8.6.30>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.4
M LDAP Injection	<8.6.26>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.13
H Incorrect Authorization	<8.6.19>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.6
H Missing Authorization	<8.6.25>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.12
C SQL Injection	<8.6.29>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.3
C SQL Injection	<8.6.28>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.2
H Cross-site Scripting (XSS)	<8.6.17>=9.0.0 <9.5.2-alpha.4
H Prototype Pollution	>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.1-alpha.2<8.6.13
M Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions	>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.1-alpha.1<8.6.12

Package versions

706 VERSIONS IN TOTAL See all versions

version	published	direct vulnerabilities
9.6.0-alpha.55	22 Mar, 2026	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L
9.6.0-alpha.54	22 Mar, 2026	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L
9.6.0-alpha.53	21 Mar, 2026	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L
9.6.0-alpha.52	21 Mar, 2026	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L
9.6.0-alpha.51	21 Mar, 2026	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L
9.6.0-alpha.50	21 Mar, 2026	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L
9.6.0-alpha.49	21 Mar, 2026	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L
9.6.0-alpha.48	21 Mar, 2026	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L
9.6.0-alpha.47	20 Mar, 2026	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L
9.6.0-alpha.46	20 Mar, 2026	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L