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

Impact On an instance of Lima running with qemu driver, an arbitrary user in the VM could access /run/lima-guestagent.sock when the guest agent is enabled. This could result in running an arbitrary command with the root privileges in the VM not on the host, as lima-guestagent.sock provides the...

EUVD-2026-42933

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

GHSA-2J9V-P4XJ-CJW2 Lima: An arbitrary user in a QEMU VM could gain the root privilege in the VM via the guest agent socket

Impact On an instance of Lima running with qemu driver, an arbitrary user in the VM could access /run/lima-guestagent.sock when the guest agent is enabled. This could result in running an arbitrary command with the root privileges in the VM not on the host, as lima-guestagent.sock provides the...

Security update for google-guest-agent

This update for google-guest-agent fixes the following issue: CVE-2026-56852: golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm: improper handling of input containing invalid UTF-8 bytes can lead to infinite loop bsc1272118. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation metho...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : google-guest-agent (SUSE-SU-2026:3439-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:3439-1 advisory. This update for google-guest-agent fixes the following issues - CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only...

SUSE-SU-2026:23051-1 Security update for google-guest-agent

This update for google-guest-agent fixes the following issues - CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels allows for validation bypass and privilege escalation bsc1266603. - CVE-2026-56852: golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm: improper handling of inpu...

SUSE-SU-2026:23077-1 Security update for google-guest-agent

This update for google-guest-agent fixes the following issues - CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels allows for validation bypass and privilege escalation bsc1266603. - CVE-2026-56852: golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm: improper handling of inpu...

openSUSE 16 Security Update : google-guest-agent (openSUSE-SU-2026:21476-1)

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21476-1 advisory. - CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels allows for validation bypass and privilege...

Security update for google-guest-agent (important)

openSUSE security update: security update for google-guest-agent ------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:21476-1 Rating: important References: bsc1266603 bsc1272118 Cross-References: CVE-2026-39821 CVE-2026-56852 CVSS scores: CVE-2026-39821...

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21476-1 Security update for google-guest-agent

This update for google-guest-agent fixes the following issues: - CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels allows for validation bypass and privilege escalation bsc1266603. - CVE-2026-56852: golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm: improper handling of inp...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : google-guest-agent (SUSE-SU-2026:3210-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:3210-1 advisory. This update for google-guest-agent fixes the following issue - CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only...

Security update for google-guest-agent

This update for google-guest-agent fixes the following issue CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels allows for validation bypass and privilege escalation bsc1266603. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended...

SUSE-SU-2026:3210-1 Security update for google-guest-agent

This update for google-guest-agent fixes the following issue - CVE-2026-39821: golang.org/x/net/idna: failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels allows for validation bypass and privilege escalation bsc1266603...

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11348-1 google-guest-agent-20260529.00-4.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the google-guest-agent-20260529.00-4.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed...

CVE-2026-12080

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent qga. A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by manipulating symbolic links. This can occur either through a deterministic directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use TOCTOU...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-12080

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent qga. A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by manipulating symbolic links. This can occur either through a deterministic directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use TOCTOU...

CVE-2026-12080

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent qga. A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by manipulating symbolic links. This can occur either through a deterministic directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use TOCTOU...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-12080

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent qga. A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by manipulating symbolic links. This can occur either through a deterministic directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use TOCTOU...

CVE-2026-12080 Qemu-kvm: qemu-guest-agent: local privilege escalation via symlink attack in guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent qga. A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by manipulating symbolic links. This can occur either through a deterministic directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use TOCTOU...

CVE-2026-12080

A flaw was found in the QEMU Guest Agent qga. A local unprivileged user can exploit a vulnerability in the guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys command handler by manipulating symbolic links. This can occur either through a deterministic directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use TOCTOU...