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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-41196 (CVE-2026-41196)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-04-23 02:16 – Updated: 2026-09-07 16:45 – Source website
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Details

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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        "5.6.1+dfsg+~1.9.0mt8+dfsg-4",
        "5.6.1+dfsg+~1.9.0mt8+dfsg-4build2",
        "5.6.1+dfsg+~1.9.0mt8+dfsg-4build3"
      ]
    },
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        "availability": "No subscription required",
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          },
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      },
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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\u0027s 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).",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-41196",
  "modified": "2026-09-07T16:45:49Z",
  "published": "2026-04-23T02:16:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-41196"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-41196"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8732-1"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-8732-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-41196"
  ]
}



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