GHSA-xc7j-wj36-qjfr is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in pocketmine/pocketmine-mp. A fix is available for pocketmine/pocketmine-mp — see the affected versions and patch details below.
PocketMine-MP BookEditPacket crash when inventory slot in the packet is invalid
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-xc7j-wj36-qjfr.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-xc7j-wj36-qjfr plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,166 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
pocketmine/pocketmine-mpReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Summary
If a client sends a BookEditPacket with InventorySlot greater than 35, the server will crash due to an unhandled exception thrown by BaseInventory->getItem().
Details
PoC
Using Gophertunnel, use serverConn.WritePacket(&packet.BookEdit{InventorySlot: 36})
Impact
Server crash, all servers
Patched versions
This issue was fixed by 47f011966092f275cc1b11f8de635e89fd9651a7, and the fix was released in 5.11.2.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | pocketmine/pocketmine-mp | all versions | 5.11.2composer require pocketmine/pocketmine-mp:^5.11.2 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for pocketmine/pocketmine-mp, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update pocketmine/pocketmine-mp to 5.11.2 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-xc7j-wj36-qjfr is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-xc7j-wj36-qjfr can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-xc7j-wj36-qjfr. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-xc7j-wj36-qjfr in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-xc7j-wj36-qjfr across Packagist dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.