PocketMine-MP server crash with certain invalid JSON payloads in `LoginPacket` due to dependency vulnerability (again)
The advisory, in context
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
Affected packages
Start with the recorded fix for your release branch. Check your installed version and test compatibility before upgrading. Fixing this advisory does not rule out other vulnerabilities in the release.
From 5.0.0 before 5.3.1
Fixed in 5.3.1
9 explicitly affected versions
5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.3.0
View affected-version evidence
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Fixed in 4.23.1
271 explicitly affected versions
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