Information Exposure Affecting github.com/canonical/lxd package, versions <5.21.4>=6.1.0 <6.5.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.06% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMCANONICALLXD-13300413
  • published6 Oct 2025
  • disclosed2 Oct 2025
  • creditGMO Flatt Security Inc.

Introduced: 2 Oct 2025

CVE-2025-54291  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-209  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/canonical/lxd to version 5.21.4, 6.5.0 or higher.

Overview

github.com/canonical/lxd is an a modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure via differing HTTP status code responses in the images endpoint's AllowUntrusted API. An attacker can determine whether a specific project exists by sending unauthenticated requests and analyzing the returned status codes.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1