GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist

GHSA-jw2v-cq5x-q68g Pterodactyl improperly locks resources allowing raced queries to create more resources than alloted

MEDIUM Published 2026-01-20 Modified 2026-02-02 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-69198
Ecosystem
Packagist
Packages
pterodactyl/panel
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-400, CWE-413, CWE-667
Reviewed
2026-01-20

Affected packages

• Packagist pterodactyl/panel: < 1.12.0 → fixed in 1.12.0

Description

Summary Pterodactyl implements rate limits that are applied to the total number of resources (e.g. databases, port allocations, or backups) that can exist for an individual server. These resource limits are applied on a per-server basis, and validated during the request cycle. However, it is possible for a malicious user to send a massive volume of requests at the same time that would create more resources than the server is allotted. This is because the validation occurs early in the request cycle and does not lock the target resource while it is processing. As a result sending a large volume of requests at the same time would lead all of those requests to validate as not using any of the target resources, and then all creating the resources at the same time. As a result a server would be able to create more databases, allocations, or backups than configured. Impact A malicious user is able to deny resources to other users on the system, and may be able to excessively consume the limited allocations for a node, or fill up backup space faster than is allowed by the system.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-69198 Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (4)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-413 Improper Resource Locking weakness
  • CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness

References