CVE-2026-116162VulnerabilityPublished 10/25/2026

CVE-2026-116162: parse-server · Improper Privilege Management

Affects parse-community parse-serverSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 2.1 Low · fixed in 8.6.104 : update parse-community parse-server when convenient.

Data as of 10/25/2026, 16:50:55 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score

2.1Low

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Patch: Available – fixed in 8.6.104

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Attack Requirements: Present
Privileges Required: High
User Interaction: None
Vulnerable system confidentiality: None
Vulnerable system integrity: Low
Vulnerable system availability: None
Subsequent system confidentiality: None
Subsequent system integrity: None
Subsequent system availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable system is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed below, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed “remotely exploitable” and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: The attacker must take no measurable action to exploit the vulnerability. The attack requires no target-specific circumvention to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable system.
Attack Requirements: Present: The successful attack depends on the presence of specific deployment and execution conditions of the vulnerable system that enable the attack. These include: a race condition must be won to successfully exploit the vulnerability (the successfulness of the attack is conditioned on execution conditions that are not under full control of the attacker, or the attack may need to be launched multiple times against a single target before being successful); the attacker must inject themselves into the logical network path between the target and the resource requested by the victim (e.g. vulnerabilities requiring an on-path attacker).
Privileges Required: High: The attacker requires privileges that provide significant (e.g., administrative) control over the vulnerable system allowing full access to the vulnerable system’s settings and files.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without interaction from any human user, other than the attacker.
Vulnerable system confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the Vulnerable System.
Vulnerable system integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact to the Vulnerable System.
Vulnerable system availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the Vulnerable System.
Subsequent system confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the Subsequent System or all confidentiality impact is constrained to the Vulnerable System.
Subsequent system integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the Subsequent System or all integrity impact is constrained to the Vulnerable System.
Subsequent system availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the Subsequent System or all availability impact is constrained to the Vulnerable System.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v4.0 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 25 Oct 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
parse-communityparse-server	Affected >=9.0.0 <9.10.5-alpha.5	Fixed in 9.10.5-alpha.5
parse-communityparse-server	Affected <8.6.104	Fixed in 8.6.104
GitHubparse-community/parse-server`pkg:github/parse-community/parse-server`Other threats	Affected <8.6.104 >=9.0.0 <9.10.5-alpha.5	Fixed in 8.6.104 9.10.5-alpha.5

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AI-suggested

A fix is available in parse-server versions 8.6.104 and 9.10.5-alpha.5 and later. Users should upgrade to these or later versions to remediate this vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.

Description

Parse Server versions before 8.6.104 and versions from 9.0.0 up to but not including 9.10.5-alpha.5 have an improper privilege management vulnerability. When issuing an SMS multi-factor authentication verification code, the server saves the entire login request with master privileges. This allows an SMS MFA-enrolled user to modify master-key-restricted fields on their own account, such as the email-verification flag or values protected by beforeSave triggers.

Impact

An attacker with SMS MFA enrollment can modify sensitive account fields that should be protected by master key restrictions. This could undermine account integrity by changing verification flags or other protected attributes, potentially affecting authentication and authorization logic. The CVSS score of 2.1 indicates low severity, reflecting the limited scope and required privileges for exploitation.

Summary

CVE-2026-116162 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in parse-community's parse-server. Specifically, in versions prior to 8.6.104 and between 9.0.0 and 9.10.5-alpha.5, the server improperly saves the entire login request with master privileges during SMS MFA verification. This flaw enables an attacker who is enrolled in SMS MFA to include additional fields in the login request that can alter master-key-restricted fields on their own account, potentially bypassing intended restrictions such as email verification status or beforeSave-protected data.

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