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.
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/5xxx/CVE-2025-5199.json",
"cna_assigner": "canonical",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-276"
]
}{
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"CPE_RANGE"
],
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:canonical:multipass:*:-:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.16.0"
}
]
}