CVE-2025-54286
HIGH8.3EPSS 0.02%Canonical LXD CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI
Published: 10/2/2025Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (6)
- Debian/incusfrom 0, < 6.0.4-2+deb13u1
- Debian/incusfrom 0, < 6.0.4-2+deb13u1
- Debian/lxdfrom 0, < 5.0.2-5+deb12u1
- Debian/lxdfrom 0, < 5.0.2-5+deb12u1
- Go/github.com/canonical/lxd>= 5.0, < 5.0.5
- Go/github.com/canonical/lxdfrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | 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 |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |