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Fencer Vulns
high 8.2

CVE-2026-53657 json

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

published 2026-07-10 4 mo ago modified 2026-10-25 14 d ago also EUVD-2026-42933 , GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2 , GO-2026-6230

cvss
8.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/lima-vm/lima/v2 2.1.3
  • linuxfoundation lima 2.1.3
  • govulncheck-vulndb SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21761-1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
3 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/lima-vm/lima/v2
<2.1.3
2.1.3
go github.com/lima-vm/lima
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • lima-vm lima

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.