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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

🗓️ 14 Aug 2026 19:24:33Reported by GitHub Advisory DatabaseType 
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QEMU driver allows arbitrary VM user to escalate to root via guest agent Unix socket in Lima before v2.1.3.

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14 Aug 2026 19:24Current
5.5Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.5
CVSS 3.18.2
EPSS0.00129
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