This page lists publicly disclosed CVE vulnerabilities affecting canonical multipass (linked via NVD CPE). Each row includes severity scores, summaries, and publication dates to help identify and analyze security issues.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-49238 | An issue was discovered in Canonical Multipass before version 1.16.3. The host-side SFTP server component (sshfs_server), which executes with root privileges on the host, contains a path containment bypass vulnerability within its validate_path function in src/sshfs_mount/sftp_server.cpp. The function performs a plain string prefix comparison on requested paths without path separator validation or dot-dot (..) normalization. A local attacker with root privileges inside a guest virtual machine ca | [email protected] | 8.4 | 0.29% | 2026-05-28 | 2026-06-01 |
| 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.m | [email protected] | 7.8 | 0.11% | 2026-05-28 | 2026-06-01 |
| CVE-2025-5199 | 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. | [email protected] | 7.3 | 0.15% | 2025-07-12 | 2025-08-26 |
| CVE-2021-3747 | The MacOS version of Multipass, version 1.7.0, fixed in 1.7.2, accidentally installed the application directory with incorrect owner. | [email protected] | 8.8 | 0.24% | 2021-10-01 | 2024-11-21 |
| CVE-2021-3626 | The Windows version of Multipass before 1.7.0 allowed any local process to connect to the localhost TCP control socket to perform mounts from the operating system to a guest, allowing for privilege escalation. | [email protected] | 8.8 | 0.24% | 2021-10-01 | 2024-11-21 |