CVE-2025-54293

Path Traversal in LXD Instance Log File Retrieval

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Oct 2, 2025
Updated: Oct 2, 2025
Reserved: Jul 18, 2025

Description

Path Traversal in the log file retrieval function in Canonical LXD 5.0 LTS on Linux allows authenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files on the host system via crafted log file names or symbolic links.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	canonical

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

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

References

https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-472f-vmf2-pr3h

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