Book page text, count, and author/title length is not limited in PocketMine-MP
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub.
Summary
### Impact Players can fill book pages with as many characters as they like; the server does not check this. In addition, the maximum of 50 pages is also not enforced, meaning that players can create "book bombs". This causes a variety of problems: - Oversized NBT on the wire costing excess bandwidth for server and client - Server crashes when saving region-based worlds due to exceeding maximum chunk size of 1 MB (PM3-specific) - Server crashes if any book page exceeds 32 KiB (due to TAG_String size limit) (PM4-specific) This does, however, require that an attacker obtain a writable book in the first place in order to exploit the problem. ### Patches The bug has been fixed in 3.26.5 and 4.0.5. ### Workarounds Ban writable books, or use a plugin to cancel `PlayerEditBookEvent` to cancel the event if `strlen(text) > 1024 || mb_strlen(text) > 256`. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
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| — | pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) | before 3.26.5 | 3.26.5 | Patch available | GHSA-p62j-hrxm-xcxf |
| — | pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) | 4.0.0 to before 4.0.5 | 4.0.5 | Patch available | GHSA-p62j-hrxm-xcxf |
- pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Vendor— Affected before 3.26.5 Fixed in 3.26.5 Patch available GHSA-p62j-hrxm-xcxf
- pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Vendor— Affected 4.0.0 to before 4.0.5 Fixed in 4.0.5 Patch available GHSA-p62j-hrxm-xcxf
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-p62j-hrxm-xcxf pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Fixed in 3.26.5 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-p62j-hrxm-xcxf pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Fixed in 4.0.5 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-p62j-hrxm-xcxf
References
Sources
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