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Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-252

Allowed

Unchecked Return Value

Abstraction: Base · Status: Draft

The product does not check the return value from a method or function, which can prevent it from detecting unexpected states and conditions.

251 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

GHSA-XW6G-JJVF-WWF9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-06-20 22:25 – Updated: 2022-06-20 22:25
VLAI
Summary
Invalid file request can crash server
Details

Impact

Certain types of invalid files requests are not handled properly and can crash the server. If you are running multiple Parse Server instances in a cluster, the availability impact may be low; if you are running Parse Server as a single instance without redundancy, the availability impact may be high.

Patches

To prevent this, invalid requests are now properly handled.

Workarounds

None

References

  • https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/security/advisories/GHSA-xw6g-jjvf-wwf9
  • https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server

For more information

Show details on source website

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Mitigation MIT-53
Implementation

Check the results of all functions that return a value and verify that the value is expected.

Mitigation MIT-56
Implementation

For any pointers that could have been modified or provided from a function that can return NULL, check the pointer for NULL before use. When working with a multithreaded or otherwise asynchronous environment, ensure that proper locking APIs are used to lock before the check, and unlock when it has finished [REF-1484].

Mitigation
Implementation

Ensure that you account for all possible return values from the function.

Mitigation
Implementation

When designing a function, make sure you return a value or throw an exception in case of an error.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.