Critical 9.0Published Apr 22, 2026

CVE-2026-41196Luanti has a mod security sandbox escape

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 4:50 AM ET)

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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).

CVSS: 9.0 CRITICAL (v4.0, CNA)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
Weakness (CWE): CWE-94
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Apr 23, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

luanti-org luanti luanti_org:luanti (from the name)	from 5.0.0, < 5.15.2	CNA record
minetest minetest minetest:minetest	from 5.0.0 before 5.15.2	NVD

References

https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/security/advisories/GHSA-g596-mf82-w8c3x-refsource-confirm, third-party-advisory
https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/commit/8a929dfb97aa08337f49ba1bb96a56d6557dc896x-refsource-misc, patch

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