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SCA: security update for github.com/lima-vm/lima/v2 (GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 445986

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2026-53657)

Solution

Update the github.com/lima-vm/lima/v2 library and its related packages to version 2.1.3 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2j9v-p4xj-cjw2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 445986

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/15/2026

Updated: 8/15/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-53657

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-53657