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...

CVE-2026-53657

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 comman...

CVE-2026-53657

CVE-2026-53657 affects Lima when using the qemu driver. Prior to 2.1.3, an unprivileged user inside a Lima QEMU guest could access the /run/lima-guestagent.sock guest-agent socket when enabled, enabling commands with root privileges inside the VM via the socket’s tunneling to privileged daemons. ...