CVE-2025-69198: pterodactyl panel Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-69198 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in pterodactyl panel. EPSS estimates a 0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 19-01-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 20-01-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionThe product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
• CWE-413Improper Resource LockingThe product does not lock or does not correctly lock a resource when the product must have exclusive access to the resource.
• CWE-667Improper LockingThe product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.