High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3626
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-3626
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:52.615630677Z",
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