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TI-2023-30804 Aliases GHSA-79rc-jjh6-rc89

PocketMine-MP server crash due to incorrect EC curve used for LoginPacket identityPublicKey

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

### Impact The server uses ECDH to calculate a shared secret for the symmetric encryption key used to encrypt network packets after logging in. ECDH requires that the keys used must both belong to the same elliptic curve. In Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, the curve used is `secp384r1`. Using any other curve (for example `secp256r1`) to sign the `LoginPacket` JWTs would lead to successfully verifying the login chain, but would later crash due to an uncaught exception during ECDH key derivation due to the client-provided key belonging to a different curve than the server's key. It's also theoretically possible that a non-EC key could be used (e.g. RSA or DH), which would also pass login verification as long as SHA384 hashing algorithm was used for the JWT signatures, and also lead to a crash. ### Patches The problem was fixed in 4.23.1 and 5.3.1 in the following commit: 4e646d19a4a1e0d082bd4d1f5a58ae0182a268d9 While 4.x would not have crashed when this was encountered, the faulty validation code has also been corrected there. ### Workarounds A plugin could handle `LoginPacket` and check that all of the `identityPublicKey`s provided in the JWT bodies actually belong to `secp384r1`. This can be checked by verifying that `openssl_pkey_get_details($key)["ec"]["curve_name"]` is set and equal to `secp384r1`. Beware that this element may not exist if the key is not an EC key at all.

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist): 5.3.1

SSVC decision points

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist)5.2.0 to before 5.3.15.3.1Patch availableGHSA-79rc-jjh6-rc89
  • pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Vendor— Affected 5.2.0 to before 5.3.1 Fixed in 5.3.1 Patch available GHSA-79rc-jjh6-rc89

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-79rc-jjh6-rc89 pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Fixed in 5.3.1 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-79rc-jjh6-rc89

References

Sources

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