It turns out that for the past two years, you could crash a Minecraft server pretty easily. A security researcher published the exploit(Opens in a new window ...

Minecraft players and server operators are facing new security risks following the discovery of a vulnerability in certain mods and subsequent mod packs that allows remote code execution if exploited.

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