CVE-2026-62420: canonical lxd Incorrect Authorization
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-62420 is a critical (CVSS 9.9) Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in canonical lxd. EPSS estimates a 0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1Timeline
- 12-08-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 12-08-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD allows an authenticated attacker to bypass target project security restrictions during cross-project instance migrations. When moving an instance cross-project to a different cluster member via POST /1.0/instances/{name} with migration: true, project: <target>, and target: <member>, the destination node skips all project restriction checks because the request arrives as an internal cluster notification. An attacker can exploit this to introduce disallowed instance configurations into a restricted project.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated9.9CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated9.9CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVDNIST9.9CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.54%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
44%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.17 pp
From 0.37% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundLxd
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Canonical1 product
- lxd≥ 5.21.0, < 5.21.6 | ≥ 5.0.0, < 5.0.8 | ≥ 5.1, < 5.21.6 | ≥ 6.0, < 6.10
Debian1 product
- lxdAll versions (No fix recorded)
Ubuntu1 product
- lxdAll versions (No fix recorded)
3 vendors · 3 products
References
6 links- github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-v9wr-9r7q-fh4gVDB EntryVendor AdvisoryREPORTExploitMitigation
