CVE-2026-63296: critical vulnerability in Canonical LXD
Project restriction bypass via instance migration config override
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.9epss 0.4%
An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD allows an authenticated attacker to bypass target project restrictions during instance migration. When migrating an instance to a target project, LXD accepts configuration overrides without validating the new configuration against the target project's enforced restrictions. An attacker can exploit this flaw to move instances with disallowed high-privilege configurations into restricted projects, bypassing security controls.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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-2025-54293HIGHPath Traversal in LXD Instance Log File RetrievalEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-66898CRITICALPath traversal via unvalidated instance name in backup tarball restore enables root file write / RCEEPSS 0.6%