minetest — security advisory
Minetest is a free open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation. In **single player**, a mod can set a global setting that controls the Lua script loaded to display the main menu. The script is then loaded as soon as the game session is exited. The Lua environment the menu runs in is not sandboxed and can directly interfere with the user's system. There are currently no known workarounds.
- Products
- minetest
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.5.0+dfsg+~1.9.0mt4+dfsg-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-35978
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Minetest is a free open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game creation. In **single player**, a mod can set a global setting that controls the Lua script loaded to display the main menu. The script is then loaded as soon as the game session is exited. The Lua environment the menu runs in is not sandboxed and can directly interfere with the user's system. There are currently no known workarounds.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-35978
minetest
Fixed versions: 5.5.0+dfsg+~1.9.0mt4+dfsg-2
Complete source record
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