CVE-2026-85526
9.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Path traversal in the Btrfs storage driver (unpackVolume) in Canonical LXD on Linux allows an authenticated user with instance creation privileges to delete or replace arbitrary files and directories on the host filesystem as root via a crafted subvolumes[].path entry in backup/optimized_header.yaml during a btrfs optimized backup import.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | LXD | 4.0.0 < 4.0.14 | affected |
| Canonical | LXD | 5.0.0 < 5.0.10 | affected |
| Canonical | LXD | 5.21.0 < 5.21.8 | affected |
| Canonical | LXD | 6.0 < 6.10 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-22: CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: poc
- Automatable: no
- Technical Impact: total
References
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-h85r-gjgx-g2rv
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd-private/pull/87
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd-private/pull/105
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd-private/pull/104
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd-private/pull/103
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd-private/pull/84
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