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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.2 High

CVE-2026-53657

Lima: An arbitrary user in a QEMU VM could gain the root privilege in the VM via the guest agent socket

Description

Lima launches Linux virtual machines, typically on macOS, for running containerd. Prior to 2.1.3, on an instance of Lima running with the qemu driver, an arbitrary user in the VM could access /run/lima-guestagent.sock when the guest agent is enabled, which could result in running arbitrary commands with root privileges in the VM because the guest agent socket provides tunneling for arbitrary addresses, including Unix socket addresses for privileged daemons like D-Bus. This issue is fixed in version 2.1.3.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

lima-vm lima

  • < 2.1.3affected

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