Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pocketmine/pocketmine-mp package, versions <5.39.2


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Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-POCKETMINEPOCKETMINEMP-15920407
  • published7 Apr 2026
  • disclosed6 Apr 2026
  • creditZwuiix-cmd

Introduced: 6 Apr 2026

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-770  (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 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the ModalFormResponsePacket handling process. An attacker can exhaust server memory and CPU resources by sending a massive JSON payload in the formData field, causing the server to freeze or become unresponsive. This is only exploitable if the attacker has an active session and is spawned in the game world.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by using a plugin to check the maximum size of the formData field and ensure the form ID is not repeated via DataPacketReceiveEvent. However, a complete workaround requires reflection to access the Player->forms property, which is not available via the public API prior to version 5.39.2.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1