CVE-2018-1999023

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

The Battle for Wesnoth Project version 1.7.0 through 1.14.3 contains a Code Injection vulnerability in the Lua scripting engine that can result in code execution outside the sandbox. This attack appear to be exploitable via Loading specially-crafted saved games, networked games, replays, and player content.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1999023

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201807-15

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.14.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.14.4-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.