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A local unprivileged user within a QEMU guest can exploit CVE-2026-12080, a vulnerability in the QEMU Guest Agent's 'guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys' command handler, by manipulating symbolic links through a directory-symlink bypass or a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) file-symlink race to gain ownership of arbitrary root-owned files or directories, leading to root access within the guest OS.