fix: close table money and theft exploits by ryanbarlow97 · Pull Request #26 · TF-Minecraft/Games

ryanbarlow97 · 2026-09-28T14:06:45Z

Fixes six ways players could take money off a table that was not theirs, found in an audit of the table and wager code. Each fix has tests that fail on the old code and pass on the new.

1. Leaving a live blackjack round refunded the whole stake (critical)

Exploit. BlackjackGame.onLeave called the default Game.onLeave, which refunds every pile the player owns whether or not a round is in play. A box could bust, or double or split, and then walk six blocks away or log off to get every coin back. At settle the bucket was already empty, so nothing was collected. On a staff mint table the house then paid out new money.

Fix. A box that leaves a round in play now loses its stake, as a bust would. On a guild or mint table the stake goes into the house tray; on a private dealer's table it goes to the dealer. The box's hands are removed from the round so the settle does not count them a second time. Leaving before the deal still refunds the bet. The old test asserting "a box that quits takes its stake with it" now asserts the forfeit.

2. Anyone could pick any table up by hitting it (high)

Exploit. onHitEntity called pickup with no owner or permission check, and did not check whether a round was live. A losing player could punch the table mid-hand and every bucket went back to its owner, undoing the hand. Buckets whose owners were offline went to the puncher (clearFeltNow's fallback). Anyone could delete guild and staff tables. A table staff had placed with /games place, which uses no deck, still dropped a deck when picked up.

Fix.

Only the table's owner, the leader of the guild that owns it, or staff may pick a table up. Staff means games.admin or games.autodealer.staff, the same rule as table options. Anyone else gets place.pickup_denied.
Nobody can pick a table up while a round is live (place.pickup_live).
Offline owners' stakes are dropped at the table. The plugin has no way to credit an offline player, since coins are items, so they are no longer given to the picker. A private dealer's tray held for an offline dealer (see 4) is different: the table cannot be picked up at all (dealer.float_held) until that dealer logs back in and gets the tray back.
Tables now record whether placing them used a deck (deckConsumed in the table file), and only those give a deck back. Older table files cannot tell, so they keep giving one back.

3. Anyone could flush a free-play felt to themselves (medium)

Exploit. Shift-clicking the shoe of an idle free-play table paid every bucket on it to whoever clicked, because the only rule was !table.live(). A table whose game has been retired used the same rule.

Fix. Only the table's owner, or the player holding its shoe, may pay out the felt by hand, and still only between games. The refusal key wager.no_flush was missing from messages.yml, so players saw the raw key; it now has a message.

4. A private dealer's float was orphaned when they left (medium)

Exploit. clearDealer left the tray alone. The next dealer then played with the float, and settleAutoTray later paid it to payee(null), which drops the coins at the table for anyone to take. Stepping down by clicking the shoe did the same.

Fix. A dealer who walks off, logs off or steps down from an idle table gets their float back straight away. Mid-round the float stays in the tray to cover the bets in play, so a dealer cannot escape paying winners by walking off. The tray (float, less wins paid, plus losses) goes back to them when the round ends. If they have logged off by then, the tray is kept and marked as theirs (floatOwner, saved with the table and kept across restarts). It goes back to them when they next log in, and until then nobody else can take the shoe (dealer.float_held). A guild table's tray is the guild's and never goes to a dealer.

5. A private dealer leaving mid-round dropped losing bets on the ground (low)

Exploit. At settle, losses on a dealer-backed table were refunded to dealer. When the dealer had left, that was null, so the coins went through Accounts.payee and were dropped at the table.

Fix. With the dealer away from the shoe, losing bets (and forfeited boxes) go into the tray and are returned to the dealer with their float, as in 4. They are never dropped where anyone can pick them up.

6. Poker and draw leavers got back bets others had already called (low)

Exploit. PokerGame and DrawGame refunded a leaver's whole bet on the current street. A player could raise, wait for the calls, then leave and take the raise back out of the pot the others had matched. Folding and then leaving also got the street's bet back.

Fix. A leaver now gets back only the part of their bet that nobody has called: their stake less the largest stake any other seat has on that street. Called chips stay in the pot, and a folded seat gets nothing back. When the leaver's coins cannot make the uncalled amount exactly, the most they can make goes back and the rest stays in the pot. Coins from earlier streets are never used to make change. Before the hand is dealt, the whole bet still comes back.

What players will notice

Walking away from or logging off a blackjack round in play loses the bet ("You left mid-round, so your bet is lost.").
Only a table's owner, its guild leader or staff can pick it up, and not during a round. Staff tables placed without a deck no longer return one.
At free-play tables only the owner (or dealer) can shift-click the pot out.
Private dealers get their float back when they leave, including after a round they walked out of. An offline dealer's tray waits for them, and until they return nobody else can deal at that table or pick it up.
Poker and draw leavers only get back chips nobody called; folding forfeits.
New messages.yml keys: place.pickup_denied, place.pickup_live, wager.no_flush, dealer.float_held, bet.forfeit. Servers with an older copy of messages.yml show the raw key until they add these.

Removed guards

BlackjackGame.onLeave: the idle peel's !table.live() check is gone. A live table now returns earlier, so the check was always true.
TableManager.clearFeltNow: the fallback payee parameter and its null check are gone. Pickup was the only caller to pass one.

Test plan

mvn -o -B clean verify with Java 21 passes: 1,084 tests (1,053 before), 0 failures.
JaCoCo: 100% line (8,832/8,832) and 100% branch (4,964/4,964) coverage, no exclusions. The build does not enforce a JaCoCo check, so I read target/site/jacoco/jacoco.csv directly.
I reverted each fix in turn (forfeit, loss routing, dealer float, guild tray guard, pickup checks, deck flag, flush rule, poker/draw refund, street filter) and confirmed its new tests fail.
The new tests cover:
- real blackjack rounds: forfeit to a dealer, a punch mid-hand refused, float returned on walk-off, step-down and log-off, the tray kept for an offline dealer, other claims and pickups blocked, and the tray returned on login;
- a guild table's tray staying with the guild;
- pickup permissions (owner, guild leader, staff, visitor);
- offline stakes dropped at the table rather than paid to the picker;
- deckConsumed saved, loaded and defaulted for older files;
- floatOwner surviving a restart;
- the free-play and retired-game flush rules;
- poker and draw uncalled refunds, folded forfeits and idle refunds, with a real-ledger WagerEngine test for the uncalled amount and the street-only take.

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New Features
- Table pickup is limited to authorized hosts, owners, guild leaders, and staff, and is unavailable during active rounds.
- Dealer-held tray funds are returned when possible and retained for the dealer if they are offline.
- Table pickup returns a deck only if one was used when placing the table.
Bug Fixes
- Leaving during a live blackjack round forfeits the player’s wagers to the dealer or house instead of refunding them.
- Poker and draw games refund only eligible current-street wagers when a player leaves; folded players receive no refund.
- Manual pot flushing is restricted to table hosts and only when play is idle.
- Picking up a table no longer redirects other players’ funds to the person collecting it.

A player who left a Hold'em or Five-Draw hand got their whole bet on the current street back, even after other seats had called it, and even after they had folded. Raising, waiting for the calls, then walking away took the raise back out of a pot the other players had matched. A leaver now gets back only the part of this street's bet that nobody has matched: their stake less the largest stake any other seat has on the street. Called chips stay in the pot for whoever wins it. A folded seat gets nothing back. Before the hand is dealt nothing has been bet against anyone, so an idle table still hands the whole bet back. When the leaver's coins on that street cannot make the uncalled amount exactly, the most they can make goes back and the rest stays in the pot. BucketAccount.onStreet keeps that take on the current street, so coins from earlier streets are never used to make change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Blackjack: leaving a live round refunded the whole stake. A box that had bust, doubled or split could walk six blocks away or log off and get every coin back, and on a staff mint table the house then paid new money. A box that leaves a round in play now forfeits its stake as a loss: into the house tray on a guild or mint table, into a private dealer's pockets on their own table. Its hands leave the round, so the settle does not count them again, and the player is told the bet is lost. Leaving before the deal still refunds the bet. Pickup: any player could pick any table up by hitting it. Mid-hand that handed every bucket back and undid the hand, offline owners' stakes went to the puncher, and guild and staff tables could be deleted by anyone. Only the table's owner, the leader of the guild that owns it, or staff (games.admin or games.autodealer.staff, as for table options) may pick a table up now, and never while a round is live. A stake whose owner is offline is dropped at the table instead of going to the picker, since there is no way to credit an offline player. A table placed without using a deck (/games place) no longer drops one when picked up; this is saved as deckConsumed, and older table files, which cannot tell, keep giving one back. Free play: shift-clicking the shoe paid the whole felt, every bucket included, to whoever clicked. Only the table's owner or the player holding its shoe may do that now, still only between games. A table whose game has been retired follows the same rule. wager.no_flush was never in messages.yml, so the refusal showed its key; it has a message now. Private dealer float: a dealer walking off or logging off left their float in the tray, where the next dealer used it and a pickup dropped it at the table. Walking off, logging off or stepping down from an idle table now returns the float. Mid-round the float stays to cover the bets in play, losing bets go into the tray rather than being dropped on the floor, and the tray goes back to the dealer when the round ends. A dealer who is offline then gets it when they next log in; until then the tray is marked as theirs (floatOwner, saved with the table and kept across restarts) and nobody else can take the shoe. A guild table's tray stays with the guild. Guards removed or refactored: - BlackjackGame.onLeave: the idle peel no longer checks !table.live(). A live table now returns before that line, so the check was always true. - TableManager.clearFeltNow: the fallback payee and its null check are gone. Pickup was the only caller to pass one, and it no longer pays offline owners' stakes to the picker. - The saved ownerPlayer id is read through a playerId helper shared with floatOwner; behaviour is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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This change updates departure refunds and forfeitures across blackjack, poker, and draw games. It also restricts table pickup and manual pot flushing, tracks deck use and dealer-float ownership, and adds persistence and return handling for dealer floats.

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Wager and departure settlement

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Current-street departure refunds `src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/wager/*`, `src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/game/{DrawGame.java,PokerGame.java,Game.java}`, `src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/{wager/WagerEngineTest.java,game/{DrawGameTest.java,PokerGameTest.java}}`	`BucketAccount` can restrict withdrawals to a betting street. Poker and draw departures refund the full current-street stake before a hand is live. During a live hand, they refund only an uncalled amount when the player has not folded.
Blackjack departure forfeitures `src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/game/BlackjackGame.java`, `src/main/resources/messages.yml`, `src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/{game/BlackjackGameTest.java,table/TableManagerBlackjackRoundTest.java}`	A player who leaves during a live round forfeits their box. Losses go to the house tray or an online dealer. Tests cover round progression, dealer availability, and settlement after a box leaves.

Table access and dealer floats

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host permissions and table pickup `src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/{game/FreePlayGame.java,guild/GuildTables.java,table/Table.java,table/TableManager.java}`, `src/main/resources/messages.yml`, `src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/{game/FreePlayGameTest.java,guild/GuildTablesTest.java,table/*}`	Manual flushes require an idle table hosted by the player when no game is registered. Pickup checks authorization and live-round state. Table pickup returns a deck only when placement consumed one and does not redirect offline owners’ stakes to the picker.
Dealer-float lifecycle and persistence `src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/{game/BlackjackGame.java,table/Table.java,table/TableManager.java}`, `src/main/resources/messages.yml`, `src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/table/{TableManagerBlackjackRoundTest.java,TableManagerPersistenceTest.java,TableManagerSettleTest.java}`	Tables track dealer-float ownership and persist it with deck-consumption state. The table manager retains an absent dealer’s float and pays it when the dealer returns or the round settles. Guild-backed trays retain their house handling.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 98ed2

The new access checks limit table pickup, but the path that returns a private dealer’s funds can lose its recovery marker if payment does not complete. The demonstrated scope is a dealer’s funds at an affected table; whether that failure occurs in normal operation remains unconfirmed.

Retained concerns

Medium · security · inferred: If a private dealer’s tray transfer fails, payTray can persist removal of the dealer’s recovery marker while funds remain in the tray. A later login would then not retry the dealer payout.

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Security Blast Radius

inferred — The identified payout-recovery concern is bounded by a private dealer’s retained tray at an affected table. The supplied evidence does not establish a cross-service or server-wide funds path.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

inferred — If a dealer-tray payout returns without moving funds, payTray nevertheless clears and saves floatOwner. The join handler requires that marker to retry payment; a normally reachable payout rejection has not been demonstrated.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — A player can initiate the table-hit event, but the inspected path checks recorded ownership, guild leadership, or staff permission before invoking pickup, and checks live state before settlement and deletion.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — MoneyTx exposes an unsuccessful or no-op commit result, whereas payTray neither checks that result nor conditions removal of the recovery marker on funds moved.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Keep the dealer’s persisted recovery identity until tray settlement is confirmed, and define retry behavior for an unsuccessful or interrupted payout.

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src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/table/Table.java
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/table/TableManager.java
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/wager/BucketAccount.java
src/main/java/net/tfminecraft/games/wager/WagerEngine.java
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src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/table/TableManagerBoardAnimationTest.java
src/test/java/net/tfminecraft/games/table/TableManagerInteractionTest.java
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A private dealer who logs off mid-round has their tray kept for them, but the table's owner or staff could still pick the table up. Pickup deletes the table, so the tray was dropped at the table, at the picker's feet. Picking up is now refused with dealer.float_held until the dealer is back and has had the tray returned. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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1. Leaving a live blackjack round refunded the whole stake (critical)

2. Anyone could pick any table up by hitting it (high)

3. Anyone could flush a free-play felt to themselves (medium)

4. A private dealer's float was orphaned when they left (medium)

5. A private dealer leaving mid-round dropped losing bets on the ground (low)

6. Poker and draw leavers got back bets others had already called (low)

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