Authentication bypass and denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities in Apple Game Center auth adapter
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 1, 2022
in
parse-community/parse-server
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Updated Feb 1, 2023
Package
Affected versions
< 4.10.10
>= 5.0.0, < 5.2.1
Patched versions
4.10.10
5.2.1
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
May 4, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 4, 2022
Reviewed
May 4, 2022
Last updated
Feb 1, 2023
Impact
Weak validation of the Apple certificate URL in the Apple Game Center authentication adapter allows to bypass authentication and makes the server vulnerable to DoS attacks.
Patches
The vulnerability has been fixed by improving the URL validation and adding additional checks of the resource the URL points to before downloading it.
References