Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification) Affecting pocketmine/pocketmine-mp package, versions <5.39.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-POCKETMINEPOCKETMINEMP-15920396
  • published7 Apr 2026
  • disclosed6 Apr 2026
  • creditdktapps

Introduced: 6 Apr 2026

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-406  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pocketmine/pocketmine-mp to version 5.39.2 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 Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification) in the handling of ActorEventPacket. An attacker can cause the server to send excessive animation events to other connected clients by sending multiple crafted packets, leading to unnecessary CPU and memory consumption.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1