CVE-2025-54286: high-severity vulnerability in Canonical LXD
CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 98% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5.0 on Linux allows an attacker to create and start container instances without user consent via crafted HTML form submissions exploiting client certificate authentication.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
Affected products
Canonical · LXDRelated CVEs — Canonical LXD
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-63294CRITICALRoot RCE via image backup.yaml symlinkEPSS 0.9%CVE-2026-66897CRITICALInstance template path traversal allows arbitrary host file write as rootEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-63298HIGHLXD arbitrary lxc.conf directive injection via NVIDIA instance configurationEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-9640HIGHLXD Snapshot Import Privilege Escalation VulnerabilityEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-66898CRITICALPath traversal via unvalidated instance name in backup tarball restore enables root file write / RCEEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-63293CRITICALArbitrary File Read/Write: metadata.yaml symlink in image allows host filesystem access as rootEPSS 0.6%