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GHSA-46c5-pfj8-fv65

HighCVSS 7.5 / 10
Published Mar 18, 2022·Last modified Dec 26, 2025
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

Due to a workaround applied in 1.13, an attacker may send a negative damage/meta value in a tool or armour item's NBT, which TypeConverter then blindly uses as if it was valid without being checked.

When this invalid metadata value reaches Durable->setDamage(), an exception is thrown because the metadata is not within the expected range for damage values.

This can be reproduced with either a too-large damage value, or a negative one.

Patches

c8e1cfcbee4945fd4b63d2a7e96025c59744d4f1

Workarounds

In theory this can be checked by plugins using a custom TypeConverter, but this is likely to be very cumbersome.

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Risk Scores
Base Score
7.5

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
6.9

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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