CVE-2026-41196

CRITICAL

Luanti 5.0.0-5.15.1 LuaJIT Mod Sandbox - Sandbox Escape

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

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).

Scores

CVSS v3 10.0
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 29.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (2)
luanti-org/luanti >= 5.0.0, < 5.15.2
minetest/minetest 5.0.0 - 5.15.2
Published Apr 23, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 23, 2026