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Fencer Vulns
low 3.8

CVE-2024-6219 json

lxd has a restricted TLS certificate privilege escalation when in PKI mode

published 2024-12-05 23 mo ago modified 2026-06-26 4 mo ago also GHSA-jpmc-7p9c-4rxf , GO-2024-3313 , EUVD-2024-3485

cvss
3.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mark Laing discovered in LXD's PKI mode, until version 5.21.1, that a restricted certificate could be added to the trust store with its restrictions not honoured.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/canonical/lxd 0.0.0-20240403103450-0e7f2b5bf4d2
  • Canonical Ltd. LXD 5.21.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20241209T183251-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14567-1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-jpmc-7p9c-4rxf referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 3.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/canonical/lxd
<0.0.0-20240403103450-0e7f2b5bf4d2
0.0.0-20240403103450-0e7f2b5bf4d2

Affected products

  • Canonical Ltd. LXD

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation
  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.