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CVE-2026-53657

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

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
lima-vm / limaaffected < 2.1.3

CWE

CWE-276, CWE-668

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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