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CVE-2022-35978 — Minetest is a free open-source voxel game engine with easy modding and game crea

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 environmen

CVSS
7.7 HIGH
EPSS
14.52% (top 5.60%)
CWE
CWE-693
Published
2022-08-15T19:05:11.000Z
Last modified
2025-04-23T17:50:19.948Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
minetestminetest<= 5.5.1

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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