Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information Affecting parse-server package, versions >=3.10.0 <4.5.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-PARSESERVER-1054842
  • published 29 Dec 2020
  • disclosed 28 Dec 2020
  • credit Fabian Strachanski, Francesco

How to fix?

Upgrade parse-server to version 4.5.0 or higher.

Overview

parse-server is a version of the Parse backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information. User passwords involved in LDAP authentication are stored in cleartext.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
4.4 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

6.5 medium