Pterodactyl Panel up to 1.11.x resource consumption

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A vulnerability was found in Pterodactyl Panel up to 1.11.x. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-69198. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Pterodactyl Panel up to 1.11.x. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel. 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, in versions prior to 1.12.0, 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. 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. Version 1.12.0 fixes the issue.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-69198 since 12/29/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.12.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 09caa0d4995bd924b53b9a9e9b4883ac27bd5607 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-206300). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Pterodactyl

Name

• Panel

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel/

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