CVE-2026-53657 — Lima: An arbitrary user in a QEMU VM could gain the root privilege in the VM via the guest agent socket
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 V…
Published: 2026-07-10 · CVSS: 8.2 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7