CVE-2022-24300 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2022-24300?

CVE-2022-24300 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 2 Feb 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-24300?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Minetest Minetest.

How do I fix CVE-2022-24300?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2022-24300 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24300 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24300, GHSA-f7m8-fvp5-fpmw, GHSA-hwj2-xf72-r4cf, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24300.