Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Parse Server - CVE-2025-67727
Published: December 23, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU120252
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-67727
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists within the repository's CI/CD infrastructure, including any public GitHub forks with GitHub Actions enabled. A GitHub CI workflow is triggered in a way that grants the GitHub Actions workflow elevated permissions, giving it access to GitHub secrets and write permissions defined in the workflow that could potentially include code from a fork or lifecycle scripts.
Affected software
Parse Server
How to mitigate CVE-2025-67727
Install updates from vendor's website.
Parse Server - update to 8.6.0