USN-8732-1

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    USN-8732-1

    Published: 7 Sept 2026Last Modified: 8 Sept 2026

    Summary: minetest vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that Minetest did not properly sanitize the Lua sandbox environment when using LuaJIT. A malicious mod could escape the sandbox to execute arbitrary code and gain full file system access on the server. An attacker could use this issue to compromise the server.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8732-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-41196

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: minetest

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/minetest?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Ffocal

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.1.1+repack-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    5.0.1+repack-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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