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).
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Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:15:00 +0000
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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). | |
| Title | Luanti has a mod security sandbox escape | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-94 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-04-23T00:28:56.716Z
Reserved: 2026-04-18T02:51:52.973Z
Link: CVE-2026-41196
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-23T02:16:17.900
Modified: 2026-04-23T02:16:17.900
Link: CVE-2026-41196
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