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TI-2023-30805 Aliases GHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38

PocketMine-MP server crash with certain invalid JSON payloads in `LoginPacket` due to dependency vulnerability (again)

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 An attacker could crash PocketMine-MP by sending malformed JSON in `LoginPacket`. This happened due to the particular handling of NULL types in the json mapper which accepts NULL type values in typed arrays which PocketMine-MP did not expect. Code processing arrays in the JSON data could then crash due to unexpected `NULL` elements. ### Patches This problem was fixed in 5.3.1 and 4.23.1 by updating JsonMapper to include the following commit: pmmp/netresearch-jsonmapper@4f90e8dab1c9df331fad7d3d89823404e882668c An upstream patch for this issue was proposed via https://github.com/cweiske/jsonmapper/pull/211; however, as of 2024-05-15, the patch has not been accepted upstream due to debate about how to deal with the behavior. For now, a fork of JsonMapper is used by PocketMine-MP to workaround the issue. ### Workarounds A plugin may handle `DataPacketReceiveEvent` for `LoginPacket` and check that none of the input arrays contain `NULL` where it's not expected, but this is rather cumbersome. ### References Proposed upstream patch for a behavior change: https://github.com/cweiske/jsonmapper/pull/211

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist): 5.3.1, 4.23.1

SSVC decision points

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist)5.0.0 to before 5.3.15.3.1Patch availableGHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38
—pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist)before 4.23.14.23.1Patch availableGHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38
  • pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Vendor— Affected 5.0.0 to before 5.3.1 Fixed in 5.3.1 Patch available GHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38
  • pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Vendor— Affected before 4.23.1 Fixed in 4.23.1 Patch available GHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38 pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Fixed in 5.3.1 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38 pocketmine/pocketmine-mp (Packagist) Fixed in 4.23.1 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38

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