Canonical Lxd
CVE-2026-62420
An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD allows an authenticated attacker to bypass target project security restrictions during cross-project instance migrations. When moving an instance cross-project to a different cluster member via POST /1.0/instances/{name} with migration: true, project: , and target: , the destination node skips all project restriction checks because the request arrives as an internal cluster notification. An attacker can exploit this to introduce disallowed instance configurations into a restricted project.
What this means for your business
- It affects Canonical Lxd. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- Code showing how to exploit it has been published, but real attacks have not been confirmed.
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.4% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 30% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Canonical Lxd, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 9.9 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Assigned by
- security@ubuntu.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-09-11
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Canonical Lxd5.0.0 - 5.0.8, 5.1 - 5.21.6, 6.0 - 6.10
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.