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A lightweight VM Manager that supports cloud-deployment simulation
$ winget install --id Canonical.Multipass --exact --version 1.16.3Run in Command Prompt, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal. Prompts for any agreements.
Multipass uses MSI (WiX). The silent install switches are /quiet /norestart.
msiexec.exe /i multipass-1.16.3+win-win64.msi /quiet /norestart
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Multipass is a lightweight VM manager for Linux, Windows and macOS.
It's designed for developers who want a fresh Ubuntu environment with a single command.
It uses KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows and HyperKit on macOS to run the VM with minimal overhead.
It can also use VirtualBox on Windows and macOS.
Multipass will fetch images for you and keep them up to date.
| Architecture | Type | Scope | Install | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| x64 | MSI WiX | machine | Direct |
Copy a command tailored to that specific architecture, type, and scope - useful when winget would otherwise pick a different default.
5 known CVEs via NVD
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_s...
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-s...
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.
The MacOS version of Multipass, version 1.7.0, fixed in 1.7.2, accidentally installed the application directory with incorrect owner.
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.
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