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Issue

When directAccess: true is enabled, ParseServerRESTController bypasses the HTTP layer and routes requests internally. This causes two categories of behavior divergence from the HTTP code path:

1. Undefined values in request body stored as null

undefined values in update (PUT) payloads are converted to null and stored in the database. This breaks doesNotExist / exists queries and changes data semantics.

Root cause: ParseServerRESTController passes request data directly to Parse Server internals without JSON serialization. In HTTP mode, JSON.stringify() naturally strips undefined values from payloads. With directAccess, undefined values are preserved all the way to transformUpdate() in MongoTransform.js, which passes them into MongoDB's $set operator. The MongoDB BSON driver then converts undefined to null.

2. Undefined values in response leak to the client

Cloud function responses containing undefined values (e.g., { questionId: undefined }) are passed directly in-memory to the caller without JSON serialization. In HTTP mode, JSON.stringify naturally strips these undefined properties. With directAccess, the caller receives the raw response object with undefined properties present, causing deep.equal assertions and object key checks to behave differently.

Reproduction (response issue):

// Cloud function that returns undefined values
Parse.Cloud.define('myFunction', () => {
  return {
    definedKey: 'value',
    undefinedKey: undefined,          // should be stripped
    nested: { a: 1, b: undefined },  // b should be stripped
    arrayWithUndefined: [1, undefined, 3],  // undefined → null
  };
});

// With HTTP: { definedKey: 'value', nested: { a: 1 }, arrayWithUndefined: [1, null, 3] }
// With directAccess (before fix): { definedKey: 'value', undefinedKey: undefined, nested: { a: 1, b: undefined }, arrayWithUndefined: [1, undefined, 3] }

Approach

The stripUndefined() helper in ParseServerRESTController.js is now applied to both the request body AND the response:

  1. Request body : body: stripUndefined(data) — strips undefined values before passing to the router, matching HTTP's JSON.stringify behavior on the request path.

  2. Response : stripUndefined(response) — strips undefined values from the response before resolving to the caller, matching HTTP's JSON serialization behavior on the response path.

This ensures directAccess behaves identically to HTTP mode in both directions. The fix is applied at the ParseServerRESTController level — the component added when directAccess is enabled — addressing the root cause at the right layer.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Undefined values are omitted from object responses, including nested objects, and represented as null in arrays.
    • Undefined properties are omitted from GET query parameters instead of being converted to null, including when sent over HTTP.
    • Create and update operations no longer save undefined fields as null; subsequent responses omit those fields.

…TTP mode behavior

When `directAccess: true` is enabled, `ParseServerRESTController` passes
request data directly to Parse Server internals without JSON serialization.
In HTTP mode, `JSON.stringify()` naturally strips `undefined` values from
payloads. With directAccess, `undefined` values are preserved, passed to
MongoDB's `$set` operator, and converted to `null` by the BSON driver.

This causes fields that should be absent to be stored as `null`, breaking
`doesNotExist` queries and changing data semantics.

The fix adds a `stripUndefined()` helper that removes keys with `undefined`
values from the request body, making directAccess behave identically to
HTTP mode.

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Walkthrough

Adds recursive stripUndefined processing for request bodies, query parameters, and successful responses. Object properties with undefined are omitted. Undefined array elements become null. Tests cover direct-access and HTTP requests, queries, creates, updates, and nested values.

Changes

Undefined value normalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Controller normalization flow
src/ParseServerRESTController.js
Adds stripUndefined and applies it to request bodies, query parameters, and successful responses.
Normalization test coverage
spec/ParseServerRESTController.spec.js
Adds direct-access and HTTP tests for cloud function responses, query parameters, creates, updates, nested values, and array elements.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes


Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6ef99

In directAccess mode, a raw Date or other object with toJSON() passed in request data or query parameters can be turned into an empty object instead of its serialized form. This is a narrow edge case with a small fix, and the rest of the change behaves as intended.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6ef99

Normal payload handling becomes more consistent, but normalization failures can leave requests and transactions unfinished. Existing authentication remains intact; externally exploitable reachability has not been established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · observed: Recursive normalization can throw without settling the returned request promise. Ingress failures occur before routing; response failures occur after route fulfillment. A transactional batch awaiting such a child cannot reach commit, abort or retry, leaving its session without controller-driven cleanup. This materially weakens failure containment and creates a conditional availability risk when problematic object graphs reach direct access.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The supported failure scope is a direct-access request and its batch, including an unfinished database session. Independent Config.get calls create separate database controllers, countering application-wide session-state inheritance. Repeated triggering could pressure shared process or database resources, but unauthenticated remote reachability and cross-tenant effects are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A conditional availability path exists if an attacker-influenced direct-access caller supplies a cyclic or sufficiently deep object: recursive normalization throws, the request remains pending, and batch cleanup cannot run. The control-flow defect is supported, but the deployed caller and privileges needed to supply such values are unknown. No concrete authorization bypass was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Copying an own proto key into a fresh ordinary object changes that object's prototype rather than preserving an own data property. This is local prototype substitution, not global pollution. Cloud-function ingress subsequently copies only own enumerable top-level properties, providing containment there; nested type interpretation still uses inherited property lookup. The checked evidence does not establish a validation or privilege bypass.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Database session release depends on terminal controller calls: Mongo commit or abort ends the session, while PostgreSQL commit or abort resolves its transaction promise. A pending batch cannot invoke those paths. Cloud results are encoded before controller normalization, which limits claims that arbitrary cyclic Cloud responses newly reach this failure point.


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Engage In Review Feedback Error The two posted findings were addressed by commits e98ffc9/later recursive implementation and 6ef99fd. However, the current review has one outstanding Minor finding about preserving toJSON() valu… Implement the toJSON() handling in stripUndefined and add regression coverage for Date or custom toJSON() values in request and query data. Alternatively, document the technical rationale in the discussion and obtain reviewer retracti…
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 2 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Security Check Warning The new stripUndefined helper creates a normal {} and assigns attacker-controlled keys directly. For an input with an own __proto__ key, this changes the generated object's prototype and removes… Preserve __proto__ as an own data property when copying keys, for example with Object.defineProperty, or use a safe null-prototype copy that downstream validation can inspect. Add direct-access regression tests that submit nested `__pro…
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Title check Passed The title begins with the required fix: prefix, uses the expected capitalization, and accurately describes the undefined-value handling issue in directAccess mode.
Description check Passed The description clearly documents the issue, root cause, approach, tests, and completed security check. It omits the template’s standard Pull Request and license text, and documentation updates remain…
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Explanation

The new stripUndefined helper creates a normal {} and assigns attacker-controlled keys directly. For an input with an own __proto__ key, this changes the generated object's prototype and removes __proto__ from its enumerable keys. The observed standalone behavior confirmed that the output inherits attacker data while no longer owning __proto__. The helper runs on direct-access request bodies before routing (src/ParseServerRESTController.js:32-45, 143-154), so it can bypass the configured requestKeywordDenylist, whose default explicitly blocks __proto__ (src/Options/Definitions.js:569-584). This matches the published GHSA-9ccr-fpp6-78qf prototype-pollution and schema-poisoning pattern documented in the repository tests.

Resolution

Preserve __proto__ as an own data property when copying keys, for example with Object.defineProperty, or use a safe null-prototype copy that downstream validation can inspect. Add direct-access regression tests that submit nested __proto__ payloads and verify rejection by requestKeywordDenylist and no schema or prototype changes.


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The two posted findings were addressed by commits e98ffc9/later recursive implementation and 6ef99fd. However, the current review has one outstanding Minor finding about preserving toJSON() values. The reviewed code still treats every non-array object as a plain record (src/ParseServerRESTController.js:32-45) and has no toJSON() handling. The PR history and supplied review context show no later commit or reviewer retraction for this finding. Therefore, the feedback was not fully engaged.

Resolution

Implement the toJSON() handling in stripUndefined and add regression coverage for Date or custom toJSON() values in request and query data. Alternatively, document the technical rationale in the discussion and obtain reviewer retraction before resolving the finding.


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spec/ParseServerRESTController.spec.js (1)

679-695: Add one nested undefined regression case to close the parity gap.

This test is good for top-level fields. Please add a case like { nested: { absentField: undefined } } to ensure nested updates also match HTTP behavior.

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In `@spec/ParseServerRESTController.spec.js` around lines 679 - 695, Add a
nested-undefined regression case to the existing test "should not convert
undefined values to null on update with directAccess" in
ParseServerRESTController.spec.js: after the current PUT that includes
absentField: undefined, also perform a PUT (or include in the same update) with
a nested object like { nested: { absentField: undefined } } and then GET the
object and assert that getRes.nested is defined, getRes.nested.absentField is
undefined, and that 'absentField' is not an own property of getRes.nested;
update expectations in the test to cover both top-level and nested undefined
behavior so nested updates mirror HTTP behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/ParseServerRESTController.js`:
- Around line 32-43: The stripUndefined function currently only removes
undefined at the top level; update stripUndefined to recursively traverse
objects and arrays so its behavior matches JSON.stringify: for objects (function
stripUndefined) iterate keys and if a value is undefined omit the key, otherwise
set key to stripUndefined(value); for arrays return a new array mapping each
element to stripUndefined(element) but convert undefined elements to null (i.e.,
if element === undefined return null); preserve primitives and null as-is and
avoid mutating the original input. Ensure the function handles nested
objects/arrays and returns a fresh structure.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@spec/ParseServerRESTController.spec.js`:
- Around line 679-695: Add a nested-undefined regression case to the existing
test "should not convert undefined values to null on update with directAccess"
in ParseServerRESTController.spec.js: after the current PUT that includes
absentField: undefined, also perform a PUT (or include in the same update) with
a nested object like { nested: { absentField: undefined } } and then GET the
object and assert that getRes.nested is defined, getRes.nested.absentField is
undefined, and that 'absentField' is not an own property of getRes.nested;
update expectations in the test to cover both top-level and nested undefined
behavior so nested updates mirror HTTP behavior.
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JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data)) perfectly replicates HTTP mode's
serialization roundtrip — stripping undefined at all nesting levels,
not just top-level keys.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ingify())

JSON.parse(JSON.stringify()) is expensive. Replace with a recursive
stripUndefined that walks the object tree efficiently — strips undefined
keys from objects at all nesting levels and converts undefined array
elements to null, matching JSON.stringify behavior.

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Can you add a test to compare that with behavior when directAccess is false? It should yield the same result.

Adds a companion test that verifies the same behavior without directAccess
(HTTP mode) to confirm both paths yield identical results, as requested
in review.

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@mtrezza Added a companion test that performs the same create/update/fetch via HTTP (non-directAccess) to confirm both paths yield identical results. The test lets the HTTP layer handle JSON serialization naturally (via encodeBody), so undefined values are stripped by the inherent JSON.stringify in HTTP mode — matching the stripUndefined behavior in directAccess mode.

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Remove explicit JSON.stringify/JSON.parse calls from the HTTP mode test,
letting the request helper's encodeBody handle serialization naturally.
This better demonstrates that HTTP mode inherently strips undefined values.

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@coderabbitai Always review the PR title as well. If the commit prefix is fix:, like in this case, then the PR title must describe the bug (broken behavior), not the fix (expected behavior).

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@mtrezza, understood — thank you for the clarification!

The current title "fix: Strip undefined values in ParseServerRESTController to match HTTP mode" describes the fix. Here's a suggested revision that describes the broken behavior instead:

fix: directAccess update with undefined field values persists them as null in MongoDB

Or alternatively:

fix: Undefined values in directAccess PUT requests stored as null, breaking exists/doesNotExist queries

I'll record this convention for future reviews.


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Repo: parse-community/parse-server PR: 10237
File: src/Routers/PagesRouter.js:552-573
Timestamp: 2026-03-18T17:53:35.669Z
Learning: In parse-community/parse-server, `src/Routers/PagesRouter.js`: the `encodeURIComponent` call in `composePageParamHeaders` is pre-existing behavior extracted from inline code in `pageResponse` and `redirectResponse`. The potential URIError on malformed Unicode (lone surrogates) when `encodePageParamHeaders` is enabled is a known pre-existing issue, not introduced by the CRLF sanitization refactor. Do not flag it as a new issue in PRs that only refactor or consolidate this call.

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Learning: For Parse Server PRs, always suggest an Angular commit convention PR title that would make a meaningful changelog entry for developers. Update the PR title suggestion on every commit. The format should be: type(scope): description. Common types include feat, fix, perf, refactor, docs, test, chore. The scope should identify the subsystem (e.g., graphql, rest, push, security). The description should be action-oriented and clearly convey the change's impact to developers.

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File: :0-0
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Learning: For Parse Server PRs, always suggest an Angular-style PR title that would make a meaningful changelog entry for developers. Update the PR title suggestion with every new commit to the PR.

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Repo: parse-community/parse-server PR: 10161
File: src/Adapters/Storage/Postgres/PostgresStorageAdapter.js:1743-1750
Timestamp: 2026-03-09T21:11:01.966Z
Learning: In `src/Adapters/Storage/Postgres/PostgresStorageAdapter.js` (`updateObjectsByQuery`), the nested sub-key `c` (derived from dot-notation originalUpdate keys) is directly interpolated into SQL string literals in the Object Increment path (`->>'${c}'` and `CONCAT('{"${c}":', ...)`). This is a confirmed SQL injection vulnerability tracked as GHSA-gqpp-xgvh-9h7h and will be fixed in a separate dedicated PR. The maintainer (mtrezza) prefers a simpler fix — either single-quote escaping (`c.replace(/'/g, "''")`) or strict key name validation (e.g., `/^[A-Za-z0-9_]+$/`) — over restructuring with `jsonb_build_object`, to minimize SQL structure changes. Do not suggest `jsonb_build_object` for this fix.

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File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2025-11-08T13:46:04.940Z
Learning: When reviewing Parse Server PRs that add new features, always check whether the feature is documented in the README.md file, though for new Parse Server options this is optional rather than required.

Learnt from: mtrezza
Repo: parse-community/parse-server PR: 10128
File: src/Routers/PagesRouter.js:111-112
Timestamp: 2026-03-07T19:09:01.305Z
Learning: In Parse Server (parse-community/parse-server), the PagesRouter (src/Routers/PagesRouter.js) is mounted behind `express.urlencoded({ extended: false })` (src/ParseServer.ts ~line 333). This means request body values are always flat strings — nested objects in req.body are not possible for this router. The `rawToken && typeof rawToken !== 'string' ? rawToken.toString() : rawToken` guard pattern used consistently across verifyEmail (line ~87), resendVerificationEmail (line ~112), requestResetPassword (line ~154), and resetPassword (line ~183) is therefore safe; the malicious-object scenario (e.g., `{ toString: 'x' }`) is unreachable.

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Repo: parse-community/parse-server PR: 10149
File: src/Controllers/DatabaseController.js:1865-1873
Timestamp: 2026-03-08T21:51:35.204Z
Learning: In `src/Controllers/DatabaseController.js` (`performInitialization`), the `ensureAuthDataUniqueness` index creation is intentionally non-fatal (warn-only, no rethrow). Unlike username/email uniqueness which has been enforced since Parse Server's inception, authData uniqueness is new. Existing production databases may have duplicate authData entries caused by the race condition this PR fixes, so crashing on startup would be a breaking change. The application-level `ensureUniqueAuthDataId` check in `RestWrite.js` still runs as a fallback, and the warning log gives operators visibility to resolve duplicates manually before the index can be created successfully.

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File: src/Security/CheckGroups/CheckGroupServerConfig.js:145-147
Timestamp: 2026-03-14T21:39:34.558Z
Learning: In Parse Server's `src/Security/CheckGroups/CheckGroupServerConfig.js`, the "Request complexity limits enabled" security check intentionally uses `return` (not `throw 1`) when `requestComplexity` is `undefined` in PS9. This is by design: `requestComplexity` is opt-in in the current major version and will only become a hard-failing security check (throw 1 when undefined) in PS10. The deprecation DEPPS18 in `src/Deprecator/Deprecations.js` communicates this upcoming default change to operators.

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File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2025-12-02T06:55:53.808Z
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@mtrezza is there any changes required?

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Requires further review... the issue is that directAccess is lacking proper test coverage, so we're operating in the dark here.

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Requires further review... the issue is that directAccess is lacking proper test coverage, so we're operating in the dark here.

@mtrezza, thanks for the review. On the coverage concern — I've now added test cases covering this path in directAccess mode, for both the request side (undefined values previously stored as null, which breaks doesNotExist/exists queries) and the response side (undefined values leaking to the caller). That should make this path easier to reason about and guard against future regressions.

For what it's worth, we've also been running this fix in production via patch-package and it has been working reliably. As it stands, the current behaviour effectively blocks a number of users from using directAccess, so this PR is correcting a genuine bug rather than introducing new behaviour. Happy to add more cases if there are specific scenarios you'd like covered.

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Thanks for the details. I'm referring to the whole directAccess feature; it's lacking proper coverage; virtually all tests run with directAccess disabled. So directAcess related changes take some time to merge.

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@mtrezza any thing that i can help with to make this PR merge.

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Merged alpha to check CI state

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@mtrezza All checks have passed on the latest run against alpha, including the Benchmarks job that was previously flagging the perf regression. Let me know if there's anything else needed to move this forward — happy to expand the directAccess test coverage further if that helps.

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@mtrezza can we get this PR merged ?

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- Line 48: Update stripUndefined to build and return new object and array
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stripUndefined previously mutated its input via delete and in-place
array assignment, which throws on frozen request bodies in strict mode.
Build new object/array containers instead, matching JSON.stringify
semantics without mutation. Add frozen-body regression test.
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- Around line 39-45: Update stripUndefined to check for a callable toJSON method
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@mtrezza can we merged this now ?

Objects with a custom toJSON (e.g. cloud function return values) reach
stripUndefined via FunctionsRouter, which uses Parse._encode (not
JSON.stringify), so toJSON is not invoked. Without this guard,
stripUndefined treats them as plain records and the SDK client receives
the raw object with its toJSON method intact, diverging from HTTP mode
where Express JSON.stringify calls toJSON. Add a toJSON branch matching
JSON.stringify semantics; no-op on pre-encoded SDK data (Date/RegExp are
already {__type:...} before reaching here). Add directAccess + HTTP
comparison tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>

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