Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting parse-server package, versions <8.6.15>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.5.2-alpha.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-PARSESERVER-15469174
  • published12 Mar 2026
  • disclosed11 Mar 2026
  • creditManuel

Introduced: 11 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2026-30946  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade parse-server to version 8.6.15, 9.5.2-alpha.2 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 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through unbounded query complexity in the REST and GraphQL APIs. An attacker can exhaust server resources, such as CPU, memory, and database connections, by sending specially crafted queries that lack enforced complexity limits.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1