highCVSS 7.5Vulnerability

GHSA-h6rj-3m53-887h

### Impact Attackers can put large and/or complex structures as a value to an unknown property in the clientData JWT body in the Minecraft `LoginPacket`, causing the server to generate very long log messages. Additionally, the property name is logged without any length limitations or sanitization, which can also be abused for LogDoS. This may be used to spam the log/console, waste CPU time serializing the offending structure, and potentially to crash the server entirely. This happens because the JsonMapper instance used to process the JWT body is configured to warn on unexpected properties instead of rejecting them outright. While this behaviour increases flexibility for random changes introduced by Microsoft, it also creates vulnerabilities if not handled carefully. This vulnerability affects PocketMine-MP servers exposed to a public network where unknown actors may have access. ### PoC 1. Connect to the server using a custom client. 2. Send a Minecraft `LoginPacket` containing an unexpected JSON property (e.g., invalid_key) within the ClientData. 3. Set the value of invalid_key to a highly recursive or massive object structure (e.g., an array containing millions of elements or deeply nested arrays). 4. The server hits the `warnUndefinedJsonPropertyHandler`, which attempts to var_export the malicious object, leading to an Out-of-Memory crash. ``` A := make([]interface{}, 1) ptr := &A for i := 0; i < 500; i++ { next := make([]interface{}, 1000) (*ptr)[0] = next ptr = &next } data := make([]int, 2000000) for i := 0; i < 100; i++ { data[i] = i } (*ptr)[0] = data d.PlayFabID = A ``` ### Patches The issue was addressed in https://github.com/pmmp/PocketMine-MP/commit/87d1c0cea09d972fd4c2fafb84dac2ecab7649f0 by removing the relevant `var_export` and limiting the length of the logged property name to 80 characters. ### Workarounds Plugins can handle `DataPacketReceiveEvent` to capture `LoginPacket`, and pre-process the clientData JWT to ensure i

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-h6rj-3m53-887h
summary
PocketMine-MP: LogDoS by large complex unknown property logging in clientData in LoginPacket
severity
high
cvss_score
7.5
cve_id
GHSA-h6rj-3m53-887h
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-04-06T22:54:03Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h6rj-3m53-887h
ghsa_updated
2026-04-06T22:54:05Z

Related Entities (4)

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]composer/pocketmine/pocketmine-mp

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]composer/pocketmine/pocketmine-mp

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