CVE-2020-26288

Summary

CVECVE-2020-26288
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-30 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-01-04 21:01:00 UTC
DescriptionParse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. It is an npm package "parse-server". In Parse Server before version 4.5.0, user passwords involved in LDAP authentication are stored in cleartext. This is fixed in version 4.5.0 by stripping password after authentication to prevent cleartext password storage.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-312

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Parseplatform Parse-server All All All All
Application Parseplatform Parse-server All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
parse-server MISC www.npmjs.com Product, Third Party Advisory
LDAP auth stores password in plain text · Advisory · parse-community/parse-server · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
Release 4.5.0 · parse-community/parse-server · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Merge pull request from GHSA-4w46-w44m-3jq3 · parse-community/parse-server@da905a3 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 983235 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for parse-server (GHSA-4w46-w44m-3jq3)
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