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CVE-2025-68150: Parse Server has Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Instagram OAuth Adapter

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to versions 8.6.2 and 9.1.1-alpha.1, the Instagram authentication adapter allows clients to specify a custom API URL via the `apiURL` parameter in `authData`. This enables SSRF attacks and possibly authentication bypass if malicious endpoints return fake responses to validate unauthorized users. This is fixed in versions 8.6.2 and 9.1.1-alpha.1 by hardcoding the Instagram Graph API URL `https://graph.instagram.com` and ignoring client-provided `apiURL` values. No known workarounds are available.

Affected products

• parse-community parse-server: before 8.6.2; 9.0.0, 9.0.0-alpha1, 9.0.0-alpha10, 9.0.0-alpha11, 9.0.0-alpha2, 9.0.0-alpha3 (+11) — fixed in 8.6.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: parse-community parse-server 8.6.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/pull/9988
• https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/pull/9989
• https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/security/advisories/GHSA-3f5f-xgrj-97pf

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