Critical · published December 12, 2025
⚠️ A crafty GitHub CI workflow is giving out elevated permissions like candy! In versions prior to 8.6.0-alpha.2, this oversight can expose your GitHub secrets to forks, turning your CI/CD pipeline into a playground for mischief! 🍭 Think of it like a restaurant where the staff can freely access the pantry without supervision—anyone could just waltz in and grab sensitive ingredients! This weakness could allow unauthorized code to sneak into your builds, mixing the recipe for disaster. Imagine an attacker gaining access to your GitHub secrets and being able to modify your workflows—all it takes is a public fork with Actions enabled! This could lead to unauthorized access, data leakage, or even malicious code being executed in your CI/CD pipeline. Yikes!
Think of it like a restaurant where the staff can freely access the pantry without supervision—anyone could just waltz in and grab sensitive ingredients! This weakness could allow unauthorized code to sneak into your builds, mixing the recipe for disaster. This vulnerability in Parse Server allows a GitHub Actions workflow to run with elevated permissions due to improper triggering, potentially allowing it to access sensitive GitHub secrets and write permissions. This affects any repository's CI/CD infrastructure that uses public forks with GitHub Actions enabled.
Imagine an attacker gaining access to your GitHub secrets and being able to modify your workflows—all it takes is a public fork with Actions enabled! This could lead to unauthorized access, data leakage, or even malicious code being executed in your CI/CD pipeline. Yikes! To secure your environment, immediately upgrade to version 8.6.0-alpha.2. Review your GitHub Actions workflows to ensure that no sensitive secrets are exposed, and audit any public forks that may have been created from your repository. It's crucial to restrict permissions and validate any code from forks! This is fixable! Follow these steps, and your CI/CD pipeline will be back in safe hands in no time. 🛡️
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| parseplatform/parse-server | ≤ 8.5.0 | — |
| parseplatform/parse-server | all versions | — |