Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting parse-server package, versions <8.6.55>=9.0.0-alpha.1 <9.6.0-alpha.44
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- published22 Mar 2026
- disclosed20 Mar 2026
- creditNikola Džekić
Introduced: 20 Mar 2026
NewCVE-2026-33498 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
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How to fix?
Upgrade parse-server to version 8.6.55, 9.6.0-alpha.44 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 Uncontrolled Recursion via the pre-validation transform pipeline. An attacker can cause the server process to become permanently unresponsive by sending an unauthenticated HTTP request with a deeply nested query containing logical operators.