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CVE-2026-41196

CVE-2026-41196 PUBLISHED CVSS 9 CRITICAL

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).

EPSS 0.37% · 31.3th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0
9
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
EPSS Score
0.37%
31.3th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
luanti-orgluanti>= 5.0.0, < 5.15.2

Timeline

  • Apr 23, 2026 CVE Published
  • Apr 23, 2026 PoC Published
  • Apr 23, 2026 PoC Published
  • Apr 23, 2026 CVE Updated
  • May 18, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 19, 2026 EPSS Score
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