CVE-2026-53657
Lima: An arbitrary user in a QEMU VM could gain the root privilege in the VM via the guest agent socket
CVSS Score
8.2
EPSS Score
0.2%
EPSS Percentile
10th
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.
| CWE | CWE-276 CWE-668 |
| Vendor | lima-vm |
| Product | lima |
| Published | Jul 10, 2026 |
| Last Updated | Jul 14, 2026 |
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CVSS v3 Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected Versions
lima-vm / lima
< 2.1.3
References
github.com: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/security/advisories/GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2 github.com: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/8a45892378d22f40505c31a38f786a07701b6d50 github.com: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/b08cae8a670cf916d5da11c48a6de76dabd89678 github.com: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/releases/tag/v2.1.3