CVE-2022-51016
MediumCVSS 6.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs
Summary
PocketMine-MP 3.x (before 3.27.0) does not implement Minecraft Bedrock protocol encryption, so the server cannot verify that a connecting client possesses the private key corresponding to its login token. An attacker who captures a valid login from another player's session (for example by tricking the player into connecting to an attacker-controlled server) can replay that login to impersonate the victim and pass XBOX Live authentication until the JWT token expires (typically 2-3 days). This affects servers directly reachable over the internet that are not behind a proxy with encryption enabled. Fixed in 4.0.0 and backported to 3.27.0.
Risk Assessment
Risk of player account takeover and unauthorized access to the server, potentially leading to data theft or abuse.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update PocketMine-MP to version 3.27.0 or later (for PM3) and to version 4.0.0 or later (for PM4) to enable protocol encryption and prevent replay attacks.
Other vulnerabilities in PocketMine-MP
See all- CVE-2026-86204Medium
PocketMine-MP versions before 5.39.2 fail to limit JSON payload size in ModalFormResponsePacket handling, allowing authenticated players to cause denial of service. Attackers can send modal form response packets with massive JSON arrays to exhaust server memory and CPU resources.
- CVE-2026-86203Low
PocketMine-MP versions before 5.39.2 fail to validate entity despawn state when processing attack packets. Attackers can exploit a race condition by attacking a disconnecting player to trigger multiple death handlers, causing duplication of inventory items and experience.
- CVE-2026-86202Medium
PocketMine-MP versions before 5.39.2 contain a network amplification vulnerability in ActorEventPacket handling that allows clients to trigger consuming animations for all visible players. Attackers can send crafted ActorEventPacket messages to spam animation events to other clients and waste server CPU and memory resources.
- CVE-2026-86201High
PocketMine-MP before 5.41.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in LoginPacket processing where large or complex structures in unknown clientData JWT properties cause excessive logging without sanitization. Attackers can send crafted LoginPackets with deeply nested or massive object structures to trigger out-of-memory conditions and crash the server.
- CVE-2026-86200Medium
PocketMine-MP versions before 5.42.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the LoginPacket handler that allows remote attackers to flood warning messages by injecting numerous junk properties into the clientData JWT. Attackers can craft malicious login packets with excessive unknown properties to waste server CPU time and degrade performance.
- CVE-2026-86199High
PocketMine-MP versions before 5.43.1 fail to properly validate the Certificate field during offline login authentication. Unauthenticated players can trigger an uninitialized property access error that crashes the server.
- CVE-2026-86198Medium
PocketMine-MP versions before 5.44.2 fail to properly validate multiple ResourcePackClientResponsePacket packets with STATUS_COMPLETED status during resource pack handling. Malicious clients can send batches of these packets to repeatedly trigger pre-spawn progression, creating duplicate Player objects and amplifying memory consumption and network traffic.
- CVE-2025-71418Medium
PocketMine-MP versions before 5.25.2 fail to limit the explode() function in packet parsing, allowing malicious clients to waste server resources. Attackers can send crafted packets with excessive delimiters to consume CPU and memory through sign editing, JWT parsing, and command parsing endpoints.
- CVE-2025-71417Medium
PocketMine-MP before 5.32.1 fails to validate uniqueness of pack UUIDs in ResourcePackClientResponsePacket STATUS_SEND_PACKS handling, allowing authenticated clients to trigger duplicate pack transmissions. Attackers can send multiple copies of valid pack UUIDs in a single packet to exhaust server memory and cause denial of service.
- CVE-2024-58381High
PocketMine-MP before 5.11.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in LoginPacket JSON processing that allows remote attackers to crash the server by sending malformed JSON data. Attackers can exploit improper object initialization from scalar JSON types to trigger unset required properties, causing the application to crash.
Original NVD description (English source)
PocketMine-MP 3.x (before 3.27.0) does not implement Minecraft Bedrock protocol encryption, so the server cannot verify that a connecting client possesses the private key corresponding to its login token. An attacker who captures a valid login from another player's session (for example by tricking the player into connecting to an attacker-controlled server) can replay that login to impersonate the victim and pass XBOX Live authentication until the JWT token expires (typically 2-3 days). This affects servers directly reachable over the internet that are not behind a proxy with encryption enabled. Fixed in 4.0.0 and backported to 3.27.0.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS