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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-53657 EUVD-2026-42933GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2GO-2026-6230

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

Published Jul 10, 2026 · Updated Jul 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
lima-vm lima < 2.1.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1
SLES 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21761-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/lima-vm/lima all versions — GO-2026-6230
Go github.com/lima-vm/lima/v2 < 2.1.3 2.1.3 GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2

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