CVE-2026-41196

Luanti has a mod security sandbox escape

State
Published
Severity
9.0 Critical
Published
Apr 23, 2026
Updated
Apr 23, 2026
Reserved
Apr 18, 2026

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Description

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform. Starting in version 5.0.0 and prior to version 5.15.2, a malicious mod can trivially escape the sandboxed Lua environment to execute arbitrary code and gain full filesystem access on the user's device. This applies to the server-side mod, async and mapgen as well as the client-side (CSM) environments. This vulnerability is only exploitable when using LuaJIT. Version 5.15.2 contains a patch. On release versions, one can also patch this issue without recompiling by editing `builtin/init.lua` and adding the line `getfenv = nil` at the end. Note that this will break mods relying on this function (which is not inherently unsafe).

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.0 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
luantiluanti-org
  • >= 5.0.0, < 5.15.2Affected

References

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