CVE-2026-41196

Critical

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).

SeverityCritical
CVSS10.0
Exploit probability—
ProductMinetest
PublishedApr 23, 2026
First seenApr 23, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • minetest minetest5.15.2 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
minetest minetest5.0.0 ≤ v < 5.15.25.15.2

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