Minecraft modders and server administrators risk encountering a dangerous security vulnerability called “BleedingPipe,” in which attackers can run malicious code on unwitting victims’ computers.

Minecraft Java has a security risk that could put users’ computer’s at risk. Microsoft alerted users of the issue on Friday and said that players should update their game as soon as possible.

Well, there was a server stability issue in Minecraft involving an inventory information exploit and it's finally been fixed... after two years.

Earlier in July, a post was made to the Minecraft Forge forums showing what appeared to be a zero-day exploit on a Minecraft 1.12.2 Enigmatica 2 server.

The exploit takes advantage of the way a Minecraft server decompresses and parses data, and causes it to generate "several million Java objects including ArrayLists," running out of memory and ...

As to how this works, BleedingPipe is using a problem with Java to feed code to a server. The code is then “deserialized ” and infects the server, which can then be used to infect individual ...

In one case, an attacker was using a new exploit variant to breach a Minecraft server and steal both Discord chatters' credentials as well as players' Steam session cookies.