CVE-2026-41196Minetest · Minetest
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
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).
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Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
vuln:CVE-2026-41196product:"Minetest Minetest"http.html:"Minetest"More intel sources (5)
vuln:CVE-2026-41196vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-41196CVE-2026-41196CVE-2026-41196"CVE-2026-41196" exploit -site:nvd.nist.gov