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CVE-2025-54286: CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.12% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • Fixed version: Canonical LXD 5.0.5, 5.21.4, 6.5.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Canonical LXD 5.0.5, 5.21.4, 6.5 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

HighCVSS 7.5 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Oct 2, 2025
Updated
Oct 12, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 2th percentile

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Action score

30

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · canonical
7.5
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
canonicallxd
linuxlinux kernel

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • canonical lxd5.0.0 and later · before 5.0.5
  • canonical lxd5.21.0 and later · before 5.21.4
  • canonical lxd6.1 and later · before 6.5

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (canonical). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Canonical LXD

    • 5.0 and later · before 5.0.5affected · semver
    • 5.21 and later · before 5.21.4affected · semver
    • 6.0 and later · before 6.5affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Alpine:v3.23incusbefore 6.0.6-r06.0.6-r0
Debian:12lxdfrom 0—
Debian:12lxdbefore 5.0.2-5+deb12u15.0.2-5+deb12u1
Debian:13incusbefore 6.0.4-2+deb13u16.0.4-2+deb13u1
Debian:13lxdbefore 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u15.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u1
Debian:14incusbefore 6.0.5-16.0.5-1
Gogithub.com/canonical/lxdfrom 0—
Gogithub.com/canonical/lxdfrom 0.0.0-20220401034332-1e1349e3cbf3 · before 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e410.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41
Gogithub.com/canonical/lxdfrom 5.0 · before 5.0.55.0.5
Gogithub.com/canonical/lxdfrom 5.1 · before 5.21.45.21.4
Gogithub.com/canonical/lxdfrom 6.0 · before 6.56.5

Same product

canonical: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-112816Improper certificate validation in the HTTPS listener in LXD
    40Plan
  • CVE-2026-87799Arbitrary file write on LXD host via symlink in migration stream
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-85526Path traversal via Btrfs optimized-backup subvolumes[].path enables root file/dir manipulation in LXD
    39Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-6156Dec 5, 2024 · Mark Laing discovered that LXD's PKI mode, until version 5.21.2, could be bypassed if the client's certificate was present in the trust stor
    15Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-6219Dec 5, 2024 · Mark Laing discovered in LXD's PKI mode, until version 5.21.1, that a restricted certificate could be added to the trust store with its rest
    15Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2025-54287Oct 2, 2025 · Arbitrary File Read via Template Injection in Snapshot Patterns
    28Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Canonical LXD5.0.5Vendor (CNA)
Canonical LXD5.21.4Vendor (CNA)
Canonical LXD6.5Vendor (CNA)
alpine:incus6.0.6-r0 · Alpine:v3.23Package registry (OSV)
debian:incus6.0.4-2+deb13u1 · Debian:13Package registry (OSV)
debian:lxd5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u1 · Debian:13Package registry (OSV)
Go:github.com/canonical/lxd0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41Package registry (OSV)
Go:github.com/canonical/lxd5.0.5Package registry (OSV)
Go:github.com/canonical/lxd5.21.4Package registry (OSV)
Go:github.com/canonical/lxd6.5Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
A
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS vector

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-352 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

Fixed

ts
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

ATT&CK techniques

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