Local Privilege Escalation in Canonical Multipass
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 ss…
Severity high: primary CNA CVSS 7.8 v3.1 (worst CNA-provided scenario) Not listed in this KEV snapshot. Forecast present in this snapshot.
Published 2026-05-28T13:22:42.840Z. Updated 2026-05-28T15:15:27.077Z.