CVE-2022-35978 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2022-35978 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1202423 [NEW]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2023:0001-1, published Tue Jan 3 16:44:43 2023
openSUSE-SU-2025:14825-1, published Fri Feb 21 18:51:12 2025

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	`minetest >= 5.6.0-bp153.2.3.1` `minetest-data >= 5.6.0-bp153.2.3.1` `minetest-lang >= 5.6.0-bp153.2.3.1` `minetestserver >= 5.6.0-bp153.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2023-1
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4	`minetest >= 5.6.0-bp154.2.3.5` `minetest-data >= 5.6.0-bp154.2.3.5` `minetest-lang >= 5.6.0-bp154.2.3.5` `minetestserver >= 5.6.0-bp154.2.3.5`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2023-1
openSUSE Leap 15.3	`minetest >= 5.6.0-bp153.2.3.1` `minetest-data >= 5.6.0-bp153.2.3.1` `minetest-lang >= 5.6.0-bp153.2.3.1` `minetestserver >= 5.6.0-bp153.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2023-1
openSUSE Leap 15.4	`minetest >= 5.6.0-bp154.2.3.5` `minetest-data >= 5.6.0-bp154.2.3.5` `minetest-lang >= 5.6.0-bp154.2.3.5` `minetestserver >= 5.6.0-bp154.2.3.5`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2023-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`luanti >= 5.11.0-1.1` `luanti-data >= 5.11.0-1.1` `luanti-lang >= 5.11.0-1.1` `luantiserver >= 5.11.0-1.1` `minetest >= 5.6.0-1.1` `minetest-data >= 5.6.0-1.1` `minetest-lang >= 5.6.0-1.1` `minetestserver >= 5.6.0-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12284 openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-14825

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Aug 16 02:00:51 2022
CVE page last modified: Fri Feb 21 19:45:13 2025