GHSA-crrq-vr9j-fxxh is a high-severity (CVSS 8.2) Information Exposure vulnerability in parse-server. A fix is available for parse-server — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Protected fields exposed via LiveQuery
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-crrq-vr9j-fxxh.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-crrq-vr9j-fxxh by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 379,842 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.
parse-servernpmDescription
Impact
Parse Server LiveQuery does not remove protected fields in classes, passing them to the client.
Patches
The LiveQueryController now removes protected fields from the client response.
Workarounds
Use Parse.Cloud.afterLiveQueryEvent to manually remove protected fields.
References
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/security/advisories/GHSA-crrq-vr9j-fxxh
- https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server
For more information
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Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | parse-server | all versions | 4.10.13npm install parse-server@4.10.13 |
| 📦npm | parse-server | ≥ 5.0.0&&< 5.2.4 | 5.2.4npm install parse-server@5.2.4 |
Affected Products
parse-serverparseplatformDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for parse-server, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update parse-server to 4.10.13 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-crrq-vr9j-fxxh is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-crrq-vr9j-fxxh in your dependencies?
Find it across npm, including transitive dependencies.