CVE-2025-54286: canonical lxd Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-54286DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54286GHSA-p8hw-rfjg-689hGO-2025-4003
Published 02-10-2025Last modified 26-02-2026
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-54286 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in canonical lxd. EPSS estimates a 0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)EPSS score
0.13%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 daysKEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 2Timeline
- 02-10-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 26-02-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
8 scores · 5 sources · 2 versionsHigh 7.5Preferred score · CVE.org (CNA)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:LSourcesAll 4 agree
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS: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 · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS: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
High 8.8Preferred score · NVD (NIST)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HSources4 sources · 8.3–8.8
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated8.3HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HDiffers
EPSS trend
Probability
0.13%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
2%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.13% on 19-09-2026
19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score0.13%
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundLxd
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian2 products
- incus< 6.0.4-2+deb13u1 | < 6.0.5-1
- lxdAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u1
Canonical1 product
- lxd≥ 5.0, < 5.0.5 | ≥ 5.21, < 5.21.4 | ≥ 6.0, < 6.5 | ≥ 5.0.0, < 5.0.5 | ≥ 5.21.0, < 5.21.4 | ≥ 6.1, < 6.5
Github.com/canonical1 product
- lxd≥ 5.0, < 5.0.5 | ≥ 5.1, < 5.21.4 | ≥ 6.0, < 6.5 | ≥ 0.0.0-20220401034332-1e1349e3cbf3, < 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Ubuntu1 product
- lxdAll versions (No fix recorded)
4 vendors · 5 products
References
7 links- github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-p8hw-rfjg-689hREPORTWEBAdvisoryExploitVendor Advisory
- github.com/canonical/lxdPACKAGE