CVE-2026-41196 (GCVE-0-2026-41196)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-23 00:28 – Updated: 2026-04-23 14:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Luanti has a mod security sandbox escape
Summary
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).
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-23 14:38 UTC
CWE
- CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/security/adv… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/commit/8a929… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| luanti-org | luanti |
Affected:
>= 5.0.0, < 5.15.2
|
guessed |
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