CVE-2025-54286

CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Oct 2, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jul 18, 2025

Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5.0 on Linux allows an attacker to create and start container instances without user consent via crafted HTML form submissions exploiting client certificate authentication.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.5 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L	canonical

Weaknesses

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LXDCanonical	5.0 to before 5.0.5Affected 5.21 to before 5.21.4Affected 6.0 to before 6.5Affected

References

https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-p8hw-rfjg-689h

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