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    CVE-2026-49237

    An issue was discovered in Canonical Multipass for macOS before version 1.16.3 due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2025-5199. While the patch in version 1.16.0 updated the ownership of the multipassd daemon binary to root:wheel, five co-located binaries (multipass, qemu-img, qemu-system-aarch64, qemu-system-x86_64, and sshfs_server) in /Library/Application Support/com.canonical.multipass/bin/ retain ownership by the installing user and remain writable. Because the root LaunchDaemon (com.canonical.multipassd.plist) configures a PATH environment variable that prioritizes this user-writable directory and invokes these auxiliary binaries by their bare names, a local attacker can replace an auxiliary binary (such as qemu-img) with a malicious wrapper. When the root daemon subsequently triggers the binary during routine execution (e.g., via multipass launch), the malicious code executes with root privileges, leading to local privilege escalation.

    Published:May 28, 2026
    Last Modified:Jun 1, 2026
    EPS:May 28, 2026
    EPSS Score:0.00011
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apple
    Product
    Macos
    Vendor
    Canonical
    Product
    Multipass

    Exploits

    https://github.com/canonical/multipass/security/advisories/GHSA-r2xg-x32f-23c5

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High