Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
PocketMine-MP versions before 5.42.1 are affected by a log denial-of-service issue in how the client data JWT in LoginPacket is processed. An attacker who can reach a publicly exposed server can send a JWT body containing many unknown properties, which causes the server to flood warning messages and waste CPU time. The source says this is fixed in 5.42.1, which limits unknown properties to 10 and rejects the packet when that limit is exceeded, so upgrade to 5.42.1 or later.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.9 | Medium | 4.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | CNA (VulnCheck) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0064, the 50th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:56 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:56 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-xp4f-g2cm-rhg7
- OSV: GHSA-xp4f-g2cm-rhg7
- github.com/pmmp/PocketMine-MP/security/advisories/GHSA-xp4f-g2cm-rhg7
- github.com/pmmp/PocketMine-MP/commit/c1d4a813fb8c21bfd8b9affd040da864b794df71
- github.com/pmmp/PocketMine-MP
- github.com/pmmp/PocketMine-MP/blob/5.41.1/src/network/mcpe/handler/LoginPacketHandler.php#L289-L303
- github.com/pmmp/PocketMine-MP/blob/5.41.1/src/network/mcpe/handler/LoginPacketHandler.php#L334-L350