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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
Affected packages
- github.com/lima-vm/lima/v2
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
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- EPSS percentile
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EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.
Sources
- https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/security/advisories/GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53657
- https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/8a45892378d22f40505c31a38f786a07701b6d50
- https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/b08cae8a670cf916d5da11c48a6de76dabd89678
- https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
- https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/releases/tag/v2.1.3
Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2
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