Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-41196

CVE-2026-41196

luanti-org luanti — Luanti has a mod security sandbox escape

Description · from the CVE record

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).

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
luanti>= 5.0.0, < 5.15.2–CNA

Scores by source

NVD10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub_M (CNA)9.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/luanti-org/luanti/security/advisories/GHSA-g596-mf82-w8c3refgithub.com/luanti-org/luanti/commit/8a929dfb97aa08337f49ba1bb96a56d6557dc896