PocketMine-MP before 4.20.5 Denial of Service via LoginPacket
Priority MEDIUM 45CWE-20Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
PocketMine-MP versions before 4.20.5 contain a denial of service vulnerability in LoginPacket JSON parsing due to improper validation in the JsonMapper dependency. Attackers can send malformed JSON structures in LoginPacket to crash the server.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0063 50th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed PocketMine-MP (pmmp): 4.20.5, 4.21.1
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA PocketMine-MP (pmmp) Fixed in 4.20.5, 4.21.1
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-54393
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ghgx-426v-hj74
- 2026-10-28 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
More pmmp vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-58990 PocketMine-MP before 5.41.1 LogDoS via LoginPacket clientData CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-58988 PocketMine-MP before 5.43.1 Denial of Service via unauthenticated login CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-58993 PocketMine-MP before 5.39.2 Denial of Service via ModalFormResponsePacket CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
- TI-2024-38460 PocketMine-MP before 5.11.1 Denial of Service via LoginPacket CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2023-30640 PocketMine-MP before 5.3.1 Denial of Service via LoginPacket CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2022-26446 PocketMine-MP before 3.26.5 and 4.0.5 Denial of Service via Skin Data CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2023-54393 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-54393 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-ghgx-426v-hj74 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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