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An unprivileged user inside a Lima QEMU guest could reach the root-owned guest-agent socket and run commands as root in the VM. Fixed in Lima v2.1.3.

Lima scored it High, CVSS 8.2 with Scope: Changed, reflecting that crossing from an unprivileged account to root within the VM crosses a security boundary that other components rely on.

Full write up is available on the Syntetisk blog.

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