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TI-2023-30769 Aliases GHSA-7wrv-6h42-w54f

PocketMine-MP vulnerable to server crash using badly formatted sign NBT in BlockActorDataPacket

Priority LOW 38Published · Updated

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

### Summary A player sending a packet can cause the server to crash by providing incorrect sign data in NBT in `BlockActorDataPacket`. ### Details This vulnerability was discovered using the `BlockActorDataPacket`, but other packets may also be affected. The player would seem to just need to send an NBT with an incorrect type to throw this error. ``` [Server thread/CRITICAL]: pocketmine\nbt\UnexpectedTagTypeException: "Expected a tag of type pocketmine\nbt\tag\CompoundTag, got pocketmine\nbt\tag\ByteTag" (EXCEPTION) in "pmsrc/vendor/pocketmine/nbt/src/tag/CompoundTag" at line 107 --- Stack trace --- #0 pmsrc/src/network/mcpe/handler/InGamePacketHandler(751): pocketmine\nbt\tag\CompoundTag->getCompoundTag(string[9] FrontText) #1 pmsrc/vendor/pocketmine/bedrock-protocol/src/BlockActorDataPacket(50): pocketmine\network\mcpe\handler\InGamePacketHandler->handleBlockActorData(object pocketmine\network\mcpe\protocol\BlockActorDataPacket#220241) #2 pmsrc/src/network/mcpe/NetworkSession(433): pocketmine\network\mcpe\protocol\BlockActorDataPacket->handle(object pocketmine\network\mcpe\handler\InGamePacketHandler#190572) ``` ### PoC Use a bot or proxy to send a packet when editing a sign. This packet should contain an NBT with incorrect types but correct architecture. ### Impact This makes it possible to shutdown a server for someone who knows how to operate it. As this was discovered in 4.22.1, everyone with at least this version is affected. ### Patches This bug was fixed by 0c250a2ef09627b48aa52302f6cc7e1f2afb70ea in the 4.22.3 and 5.2.1 releases. ### Workarounds A plugin may be able to handle `DataPacketReceiveEvent` for `BlockActorDataPacket`, and verify that the `FrontText` tag is a `TAG_Compound`.

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist): 4.22.3, 5.2.1

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist)4.20.0 to before 4.22.34.22.3Patch availableGHSA-7wrv-6h42-w54f
—pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist)5.0.0 to before 5.2.15.2.1Patch availableGHSA-7wrv-6h42-w54f
  • pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Vendor— Affected 4.20.0 to before 4.22.3 Fixed in 4.22.3 Patch available GHSA-7wrv-6h42-w54f
  • pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Vendor— Affected 5.0.0 to before 5.2.1 Fixed in 5.2.1 Patch available GHSA-7wrv-6h42-w54f

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-7wrv-6h42-w54f pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Fixed in 4.22.3 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-7wrv-6h42-w54f pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Fixed in 5.2.1 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-7wrv-6h42-w54f

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