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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/18605 Patch
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/18651 Patch
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-v9wr-9r7q-fh4g Vendor Advisory, Exploit, Mitigation
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-v9wr-9r7q-fh4g Vendor Advisory, Exploit, Mitigation
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 9.9 · canonicalNVD modified 2026-10-23 19:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:lxd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 4
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/18605 Patch
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/18651 Patch
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-v9wr-9r7q-fh4g Vendor Advisory, Exploit, Mitigation
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-v9wr-9r7q-fh4g Vendor Advisory, Exploit, Mitigation