🛡️ CVE-2022-35978 on Debian — minetest

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-35978 as tracked by Debian, for the package minetest. The fix is available in version 5.5.0+dfsg+~1.9.0mt4+dfsg-2; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-35978 is classified as CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure. A protection exists but does not cover the case at hand, so it can be worked around.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-35978 is recorded against 1 package.

  • minetest (fixed in 5.5.0+dfsg+~1.9.0mt4+dfsg-2)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 August 2022 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2022-35978 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-08-15
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
minetest — 5.5.0+dfsg+~1.9.0mt4+dfsg-2

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