CVE-2023-5536

State: Published
Severity: 5.0 Medium
Published: Dec 12, 2023
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Oct 11, 2023

Description

A feature in LXD (LP#1829071), affects the default configuration of Ubuntu Server which allows privileged users in the lxd group to escalate their privilege to root without requiring a sudo password.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.0 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	canonical

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Ubuntu ServerCanonical	before 24.04Not affected

References

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/easy-multi-user-lxd-setup/26215/4mitigation
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5536issue-tracking
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1829071issue-tracking
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5536issue-tracking

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