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 can bypass the FUSE layer by injecting raw SFTP frames (such as an SSH_FXP_OPEN request) directly into the sshfs_server process stdin/stdout pipes via procfs. By supplying a path containing directory traversal sequences that match the allowed mount prefix, the attacker can force the host-side root process to resolve the traversal and open files outside the designated mount boundary. This allows a guest-side user to read arbitrary files on the host filesystem, resulting in a virtual machine escape.

• CWE-22

• https://github.com/canonical/multipass/security/advisories/GHSA-rhp2-23c4-r34wExploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/canonical/multipass/security/advisories/GHSA-rhp2-23c4-r34wExploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

May 28, 2026

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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