CVE-2025-5199

LPE on Multipass for macOS

CVSS 7.3 HIGHEPSS 0.1%CWE-276

In Canonical Multipass up to and including version 1.15.1 on macOS, incorrect default permissions allow a local attacker to escalate privileges by modifying files executed with administrative privileges by a Launch Daemon during system startup.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Canonical · Multipass

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References

https://github.com/canonical/multipass/pull/4115 https://github.com/canonical/multipass/security/advisories/GHSA-2j82-p5cq-62p3