CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-51017

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.47%

39th percentile - higher than 39% of all known CVEs

Summary

PocketMine-MP before versions 3.26.5 and 4.0.5 fails to validate the length of skin data fields submitted by players, allowing values to exceed the 32767 byte TAG_String limit. Attackers can submit oversized fields like skinID or geometryName to trigger exceptions during NBT serialization, causing server crashes.

Risk Assessment

The risk is the possibility of remotely crashing the game server, leading to service disruption and potential DoS attacks.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update PocketMine-MP to version 3.26.5 or 4.0.5, which include fixes for skin data field length validation.

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Original NVD description (English source)

PocketMine-MP versions before 3.26.5 and 4.0.5 fail to validate the length of skin data fields submitted by players, allowing uncapped values to exceed the 32767 byte TAG_String limit. Attackers can submit oversized skin data fields like skinID or geometryName to trigger exceptions during NBT data serialization, causing server crashes.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS