CVE-2026-53657: Lima: An arbitrary user in a QEMU VM could gain the root privilege in the VM via the guest agent socket
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 tunneling service for an arbitrary address, including a Unix socket address for privileged daemons like D-Bus.
This vulnerability is not exploitable on vz driver, as the guest agent uses vsocks instead of Unix sockets.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2
- github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/8a45892378d22f40505c31a38f786a07701b6d50
- github.com/lima-vm/lima/commit/b08cae8a670cf916d5da11c48a6de76dabd89678
- github.com/lima-vm/lima/releases/tag/v2.1.3
- github.com/lima-vm/lima/security/advisories/GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53657
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