High
Security advisory
The Battle for Wesnoth Project version 1.7.0 through 1.14.3 contains a Code Injection vulnerability in the Lua scripting engine that can result in code execution outside the sandbox. This attack appear to be exploitable via Loading specially-crafted saved games, networked games, replays, and player content.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1999023
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:17 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Battle for Wesnoth Project version 1.7.0 through 1.14.3 contains a Code Injection vulnerability in the Lua scripting engine that can result in code execution outside the sandbox. This attack appear to be exploitable via Loading specially-crafted saved games, networked games, replays, and player content.
osv:CVE-2018-1999023
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2018-07-23T16:29:00.273+00:00"
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