Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting pocketmine/pocketmine-mp package, versions <3.15.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-POCKETMINEPOCKETMINEMP-1039797
  • published12 Nov 2020
  • disclosed11 Nov 2020
  • creditMuqsit Rayyan

Introduced: 11 Nov 2020

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pocketmine/pocketmine-mp to version 3.15.4 or higher.

Overview

pocketmine/pocketmine-mp is a highly customisable, open source server software for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition written in PHP

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Specially crafted InventoryTransactionPackets sent by malicious clients were able to exploit the behaviour of InventoryTransaction->findResultItem() and cause it to take an abnormally long time to execute, causing an apparent server freeze.

The affected code is intended to compact conflicting InventoryActions which are in the same InventoryTransaction by flattening them into a single action. When multiple pathways to a result existed, the complexity of this flattening became exponential. The problem was fixed by bailing when ambiguities are detected.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

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