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CVE-2023-54390

PocketMine-MP before 5.3.1 Denial of Service via LoginPacket

8.7 HighFix available

PocketMine-MP versions before 5.3.1 and 4.23.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in LoginPacket JSON parsing due to improper null value handling in arrays. Attackers can send malformed JSON with unexpected null elements in LoginPacket to crash the server.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.61%Up 0.3 points since Sep 10, 2026
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 8.7

PocketMine-MP before 5.3.1 Denial of Service via LoginPacket

PocketMine-MP versions before 5.3.1 and 4.23.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in LoginPacket JSON parsing due to improper null value handling in arrays. Attackers can send malformed JSON with unexpected null elements in LoginPacket to crash the server.

Record
CVE-2023-54390
CVSS 4.0
8.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-1025
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2023-60621 8.7

PocketMine-MP versions before 5.3.1 and 4.23.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in LoginPacket JSON parsing due to improper null value handling in arrays. Attackers can send malformed JSON with unexpected null elements in LoginPacket to crash the server.

Record
EUVD-2023-60621
CVSS 4.0
8.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38 7.5

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

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

Record
GHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-q3ff-jxcw-jc3j 8.7

PocketMine-MP versions before 5.3.1 and 4.23.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in...

PocketMine-MP versions before 5.3.1 and 4.23.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in LoginPacket JSON parsing due to improper null value handling in arrays. Attackers can send malformed JSON with unexpected null elements in LoginPacket to crash the server.

Record
GHSA-q3ff-jxcw-jc3j
CVSS 4.0
8.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-1025
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 8.7

PocketMine-MP versions before 5.3.1 and 4.23.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in LoginPacket JSON parsing due to improper null value handling in arrays. Attackers can send malformed JSON with unexpected null elements in LoginPacket to crash the server.

Record
CVE-2023-54390
CVSS 4.0
8.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-1025
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 8.7

PocketMine-MP before 5.3.1 Denial of Service via LoginPacket

PocketMine-MP versions before 5.3.1 and 4.23.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in LoginPacket JSON parsing due to improper null value handling in arrays. Attackers can send malformed JSON with unexpected null elements in LoginPacket to crash the server.

Record
CVE-2023-54390
CVSS 4.0
8.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness
CWE-1025
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38 7.5

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

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

Record
GHSA-92jh-gwch-jq38
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
pocketmine/pocketmine-mp
Packagist
 5.0.0 to 5.3.0
5.3.1
pocketmine/pocketmine-mp
Packagist
 through 4.23.0
4.23.1
pocketmine/pocketmine-mp
Packagist
 5.0.0 up to 5.3.1, plus listed versions
5.0.15.1.05.1.15.1.25.1.35.2.05.2.15.3.0
5.3.1
pocketmine/pocketmine-mp
Packagist
 before 4.23.1, plus listed versions
3.0.03.0.13.0.103.0.113.0.12
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3.0.23.0.33.0.43.0.53.0.63.0.73.0.83.0.93.1.03.1.13.1.23.1.33.1.43.1.53.1.63.1.73.1.83.10.03.10.13.11.03.11.13.11.23.11.33.11.43.11.53.11.63.11.73.12.03.12.13.12.23.12.33.12.43.12.53.12.63.13.03.13.13.14.03.14.13.14.23.14.33.15.03.15.13.15.23.15.33.15.4
4.23.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
first indexedCVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2023-54390 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.7) in Pmmp Pocketmine-mp, published September 14, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.61%, the 49th percentile. Fixed in pocketmine/pocketmine-mp 5.3.1.

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