CVE-2025-54286

HIGH

Canonical LXD >=5.0 <5.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via Client Certificate Authentication

Title source: llm

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-p8hw-rfjg-689h

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0002

EPSS Percentile 7.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-352

Status published

Products (2)

canonical/lxd 5.0 - 5.0.5Go

canonical/lxd 5.0.0 - 5.0.5

Published Oct 02, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026