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CVE-2022-24300

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-02-02 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Minetest before 5.4.0 allows attackers to add or modify arbitrary meta fields of the same item stack as saved user input, aka ItemStack meta injection.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
• minetest: before 5.4.0 — fixed in 5.4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: minetest 5.4.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/1004223
• https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/b5956bde259faa240a81060ff4e598e25ad52dae
• https://github.com/minetest/minetest/security/advisories/GHSA-hwj2-xf72-r4cf
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5075
• https://bugs.debian.org/1004223
• https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/b5956bde259faa240a81060ff4e598e25ad52dae
• https://github.com/minetest/minetest/security/advisories/GHSA-hwj2-xf72-r4cf
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5075

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