CVE-2025-5199

LPE on Multipass for macOS

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Jul 11, 2025
Updated: Jul 14, 2025
Reserved: May 26, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	canonical

Weaknesses

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
MultipassCanonical	before 1.16.0Affected

References

https://github.com/canonical/multipass/security/advisories/GHSA-2j82-p5cq-62p3vendor-advisory
https://github.com/canonical/multipass/pull/4115patch

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