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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-06-09 | Published 2026-07-10 | Updated 2026-07-14 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions

CWE-668: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Product status

< 2.1.3
affected

References

github.com/...m/lima/security/advisories/GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2

github.com/...ommit/8a45892378d22f40505c31a38f786a07701b6d50

github.com/...ommit/b08cae8a670cf916d5da11c48a6de76dabd89678

github.com/lima-vm/lima/releases/tag/v2.1.3

cve.org (CVE-2026-53657)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-53657)

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