GHSA-f6j3-w9v3-cq22Medium

Parse Server has a session field immutability bypass via falsy-value guard

Published
April 1, 2026
Last Modified
April 1, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

An authenticated user can bypass the immutability guard on session fields (expiresAt, createdWith) by sending a null value in a PUT request to the session update endpoint. This allows nullifying the session expiry, making the session valid indefinitely and bypassing configured session length policies.

Patches

The truthiness-based guard checks were replaced with key-presence checks that reject any value for protected session fields, including null.

Workarounds

There is no known workaround. A beforeSave trigger on _Session could be used to reject null values for expiresAt and createdWith.

🎯 Affected products2

  • npm/parse-server:>= 9.0.0, < 9.7.0-alpha.14
  • npm/parse-server:< 8.6.69

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