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CVE-2022-35978
Lua sandbox escape from mod in Minetest
High7.7EPSS 3.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical10.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.7.
Weakness
Affected products
References (3)
- https://github.com/minetest/minetest/security/advisories/GHSA-663q-pcjw-27cc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/da71e86633d0b27cd02d7aac9fdac625d141ca13 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://dev.minetest.net/Changelog#5.5.0_.E2.86.92_5.6.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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