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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2025-54286 json

CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI

published 2025-10-02 13 mo ago modified 2026-10-12 27 d ago also GHSA-p8hw-rfjg-689h , GO-2025-4003 , EUVD-2025-32635

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/canonical/lxd 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41, 5.0.5, 5.21.4, 6.5
  • Canonical LXD 5.0.5, 5.21.4, 6.5
  • lxd Debian 13 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u1
  • incus Debian 13 6.0.4-2+deb13u1
  • incus Debian 14 6.0.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54286

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20251105T184115-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15710-1

  • incus Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 6.0.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-54286

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
13 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-p8hw-rfjg-689h referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.5 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
CNA 4.0 7.5 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/canonical/lxd
>=5.0, <5.0.5
>=5.1, <5.21.4
>=6.0, <6.5
>=0.0.0-20220401034332-1e1349e3cbf3, <0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41
all versions
5.0.5
5.21.4
6.5
0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41

Affected products

  • Canonical LXD

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

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