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

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

CVE-2026-53657Published 1 week agoUpdated 1 week agoSource: OSV

Affected packages

  • github.com/lima-vm/lima/v2

Exploit signal

Known exploited (CISA KEV)
No
EPSS score
EPSS percentile

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