Missing Authentication for Critical Function Affecting parse-dashboard package, versions >=7.3.0-alpha.42 <9.0.0-alpha.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-PARSEDASHBOARD-15366641
  • published1 Mar 2026
  • disclosed25 Feb 2026
  • creditByambadalai Sumiya

Introduced: 25 Feb 2026

NewCVE-2026-27595  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-306  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade parse-dashboard to version 9.0.0-alpha.8 or higher.

Overview

parse-dashboard is a The Parse Dashboard for Parse Server

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authentication for Critical Function via the agent endpoint. An attacker can perform arbitrary database operations against any connected server instance by sending unauthenticated requests. This is only exploitable if the agent configuration block is present in the dashboard configuration.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by removing the agent configuration block from the dashboard configuration.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1