Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Affecting github.com/canonical/lxd/lxd package, versions <5.21.4>=6.1.0 <6.5.0
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- published6 Oct 2025
- disclosed2 Oct 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 2 Oct 2025
NewCVE-2025-54288 Â (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade github.com/canonical/lxd/lxd to version 5.21.4, 6.5.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Spoofing via the findContainerForPID function. An attacker can access sensitive metadata, configuration, and device information of other containers by spoofing process names through the devLXD API endpoints.
Note:
This is only exploitable if the attacker has root privileges within any container.