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WS-2023-0161
Published:May 15, 2026
Updated:May 15, 2026
Impact A "mismatch" type "InventoryTransactionPacket" is sent by the client to request a resync of all currently open inventories. Since PocketMine-MP does not rate-limit these "mismatch" transactions, and the syncing of inventories is not deferred until, e.g. the end of the current tick, they can be used as a very cheap bandwidth multiplier by making the server send out many MB of data (network serialized inventory items can be very large, especially when dealing with large amounts of NBT). This is not currently known to have been exploited in the wild. Patches This problem was fixed in 4.18.0-ALPHA2 by ca6d51498f12427a947467da8fcad7811418e6cc alongside the introduction of the "ItemStackRequest" system implementation. Workarounds Plugins can handle "DataPacketReceiveEvent" for "InventoryTransactionPacket" and check if the type is "MismatchTransactionData". If it is, apply some kind of rate limit (e.g. max 1 per tick).
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
LOW
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Weakness Type (CWE)
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption