Privilege Escalation to Root in Lima QEMU Guests via World-Writable Agent Socket
CVE-2026-53657 is a privilege-escalation vulnerability affecting Lima QEMU guests. Based on the provided content, the issue involves a world-writable agent socket within the Lima QEMU guest environment. This insecure permission model allows a local actor in the guest to interact with the agent socket in a way that can lead to escalation of privileges to root. Specific vulnerable functions, code paths, and implementation details are not available in the provided content.
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