What is CVE-2026-41196?

CVE-2026-41196 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Luanti-org Luanti, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2026-04-23.

How severe is CVE-2026-41196?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.

RCE in Luanti-org Luanti

CVE-2026-41196

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform. Starting in version 5.0.0 and prior to version 5.15.2, a malicious mod can trivially escape the sandboxed Lua environment to execute arbitrary code and gain full fi…

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.001 (25.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 10.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Luanti-org Luanti — versions >= 5.0.0, < 5.15.2
Minetest

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-41196?: CVE-2026-41196 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Luanti-org Luanti, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2026-04-23.
How severe is CVE-2026-41196?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.