CVE-2026-53657CWE-276CWE-668

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

High · published July 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00197 · 8.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-276 · Incorrect Default Permissions; CWE-668 · Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
Published
2026-07-10T15:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 JUL 15:42Z
    Lima: An arbitrary user in a QEMU VM could gain the root privilege in the VM via the guest agent socket
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