Parse ServerApplication · Parseplatform

CVE-2026-32770

HIGH · 7.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-03-18
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 8.6.43 / 9.6.0 or later.
See remediation →
84/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to 9.6.0-alpha.19 and 8.6.43, a remote attacker can crash the Parse Server by subscribing to a LiveQuery with an invalid regular expression pattern. The server process terminates when the invalid pattern reaches the regex engine during subscription matching, causing denial of service for all connected clients. The fix in 9.6.0-alpha.19 and 8.6.43 validates regular expression patterns at subscription time, rejecting invalid patterns before they are stored. Additionally, a defense-in-depth try-catch prevents any subscription matching error from crashing the server process. As a workaround, disable LiveQuery if it is not needed.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis

A detailed technical summary for this CVE is being prepared.

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Parse ServerApplication
Affected:< 8.6.43>= 9.0.0, < 9.6.0= 9.6.0

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 8.6.43 / 9.6.0 or later
Fixed in 8.6.439.6.0
Vendor patch github.com →
Recommended fix High confidence

Parse Server 8.6.43+ (8.x branch) or 9.6.0+ (9.x branch)

  1. Check current Parse Server version by running 'npm list parse-server' or inspecting package.json
  2. For Parse Server 8.x users: upgrade to version 8.6.43 or later by running 'npm install [email protected]' or 'npm install parse-server@latest-8'
  3. For Parse Server 9.x users: upgrade to version 9.6.0 or later (latest stable) by running 'npm install parse-server@9' or 'npm install parse-server@latest'
  4. Verify the upgrade was successful by checking the installed version again
  5. Restart the Parse Server to apply the changes
  6. Test LiveQuery functionality to ensure it continues to work properly after the upgrade
  7. If LiveQuery is not needed, consider disabling it as a workaround by setting the 'liveQuery' configuration to an empty object or disabling it in server configuration
Caveat The upgrade should be low-risk as it primarily adds input validation and error handling; however, test in staging first to ensure no regressions with regex patterns in LiveQuery subscriptions

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

We can perform the upgrade in your staging environment and verify nothing breaks — typical engagement from $1,950. Get the upgrade done

Scan for this in your stack

Free · runs locally
dbcve dependency scanner

Check whether your project pulls in CVE-2026-32770 — or any other known-vulnerable package — straight from your lock files. Free and open source; it runs locally and uploads nothing.

References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

Primary sources

Practitioner notes

Contributed

Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-32770 in production — separate from our analysis above.

No notes yet

Be the first to add a field note for this CVE — a mitigation you’ve verified, a version caveat, or a link to a working fix. Sign in above to contribute.

What this is

A place for practitioners to share what actually worked: a mitigation you’ve tested, a configuration change, a version- or environment-specific caveat, or a link to a verified patch. The most useful notes rise to the top as peers upvote them, so the signal stays high.

What belongs here
  • Verified mitigations, workarounds, and config changes
  • Version or environment caveats, and links to real fixes
  • No weaponised exploit code, or anything meant to cause harm
  • No spam, self-promotion, credentials, or personal data