Delightful medieval RPG Pentiment is among a number of games which have been temporarily delisted on Steam, as a result of a security vulnerability being unearthed in the Unity engine. Other games, including Among Us, have already received updates as a result of the issue.
“A security vulnerability was identified that affects games and applications built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later for Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems,” Unity revealed late on Friday. “There is no evidence of any exploitation of the vulnerability, nor has there been any impact on users or customers. We have proactively provided fixes that address the vulnerability, and they are already available to all developers. The vulnerability was responsibly reported by the security researcher RyotaK, and we thank him for working with us.”
Unity added that all versions of games made with Unity since an update in September 2017 “may contain this vulnerability”. A security advisory page about the issue says such apps risk being “susceptible to an unsafe file loading and local file inclusion attack depending on the operating system, which could enable local code execution or information disclosure at the privilege level of the vulnerable application.” The advisory also claims that the Unity engine itself has been provided with the fixes that developers will need.
As a result, publishers including Microsoft and Obsidian have opted to temporarily pull affected games from sale on Steam while they’re updated. Pentiment, Fallout Shelter, Wasteland 3, and Hearthstone are among the yanked games, and as of writing have yet to be restored to the storefront. Meanwhile, some games have ended up as more complex cases. For instance, Avowed‘s premium edition has been pulled, but the base game remains up, because the only element of it at risk is a Unity-developed artbook.
A number of games have also remained online after receiving rapid updates, with Among Us devs Innersloth having been fittingly quick to deal with potential susness, while Marvel Snap was rapidly patched. It’s worth noting that Microsoft recommend you temporarily uninstall any affected games until updates are available. The company extend that to games they no longer support, like The Elder Scrolls: Legends and 2019 versions of both Doom and Doom 2. These unsupported games have also been pulled from stores, so the need to uninstall only applies if you already own them.
Odds are the pulled games which haven’t been sunsetted will return to Steam relatively soon with fresh updates, but it’s maybe worth checking your list of current installs to make sure nothing affected’s hanging around on your drives.
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Author: 360 Technology Group
