CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-22474

8.1 HIGH Published 2023-02-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-02-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-290

Description

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Parse Server uses the request header `x-forwarded-for` to determine the client IP address. If Parse Server doesn't run behind a proxy server, then a client can set this header and Parse Server will trust the value of the header. The incorrect client IP address will be used by various features in Parse Server. This allows to circumvent the security mechanism of the Parse Server option `masterKeyIps` by setting an allowed IP address as the `x-forwarded-for` header value. This issue has been patched in version 5.4.1. The mechanism to determine the client IP address has been rewritten. The correct IP address determination now requires to set the Parse Server option `trustProxy`.

Affected configurations

• parseplatform parse-server (< 5.4.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing weakness

References