CVE-2026-9640

Published Jun 26, 2026

Last updated 21 days ago

Overview

Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in LXD from 6.0 before 6.9, 5.21.0 before 5.21.5, and 5.0.0 before 5.0.7 regarding the handling of project-restriction policies during snapshot restoration.. An authenticated project operator in a restricted multi-tenant environment can bypass policy restrictions by importing a maliciously crafted instance backup containing restricted configuration keys within a snapshot. When the snapshot is restored, these restricted keys are applied to the live instance without policy validation. Starting the modified instance grants the operator unauthorized host root access.
Source
security@ubuntu.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
lxd

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.2
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
1.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

security@ubuntu.com
CWE-863

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations