October 3, Unity He released e -mail with developers developers who have released a game that has used its engine against vulnerability discovered in the engine code since 2017. Although the vulnerability of Unity engine has no evidence of exploitation from this writing, the warnings have sent some developers of games trying to fix any affected titles.
Originally released in 2005 and used titles as Hollow Knight: Silksong, Subnauticaand Between us“Unity Engine is one of the most used engines in games to develop PCs and mobile devices. While Unity lost land to Godot and Unreal Engine due to the controversial Runtime fees introduced in 2023, Unity returned these changes in 2024. Available through a traditional subscription model, although Unity's personal revenue remains free.
Unity engine security defect has developers trying to implement repair
However, the Unity engine finds back in the center of attention, although the circumstances are larger. According to reports, the Unity game machine has security vulnerability in versions 2017.1 and later, including Unity 6. This vulnerability affects games released for Windows, Android, Linux and MacOS. The vulnerability lies in the UNITY running code that would allow the attacker to cross sensitive information from the affected machine. However, unity stated that it did not find any evidence of using vulnerability and actively sent the developers the necessary repairs to deal with it. Together with Unity, Microsoft Defender can detect and block the vulnerability on Windows devices, adding its own protection through the Steam client.
Obsidian Entertainment said it would temporarily remove Grounded 2, Pentiment, Openand Pillars Of all digital interpretations, while it works on implementation of the Unity security defect repair. Obsidian added that a step was taken to protect its customers and gave its developers enough time to implement and test the necessary safety repairs provided by unity. Obsidian did not provide any schedule where the drawn games would return to the facade and in the meantime asked fans for patience. For comparison, games like Between us and Marvel Snap Since then, they have published updates that would solve the UNITY security defect.
Since several titles on multiple platforms are driven by unity, there is no list of games influenced by vulnerabilities of security. It remains to see how many games will be required to update in the coming days.
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June 5, 2018
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E10+ for all 10+: mild blood, fantasy violence
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