Description
An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD allows an authenticated attacker to bypass target project restrictions during instance migration. When migrating an instance to a target project, LXD accepts configuration overrides without validating the new configuration against the target project's enforced restrictions. An attacker can exploit this flaw to move instances with disallowed high-privilege configurations into restricted projects, bypassing security controls.
Published: 2026-08-12
Score: 9.9 Critical
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Solution

Upgrade to LXD version 5.0.8 or later, or 5.12.6 or later, or 6.10 or later.

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History

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Canonical
Canonical lxd
Vendors & Products Canonical
Canonical lxd

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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Description An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD allows an authenticated attacker to bypass target project restrictions during instance migration. When migrating an instance to a target project, LXD accepts configuration overrides without validating the new configuration against the target project's enforced restrictions. An attacker can exploit this flaw to move instances with disallowed high-privilege configurations into restricted projects, bypassing security controls.
Title Project restriction bypass via instance migration config override
Weaknesses CWE-863
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-12T19:27:45.736Z

Reserved: 2026-07-16T09:49:29.911Z

Link: CVE-2026-63296

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-12T20:17:47.437

Modified: 2026-08-12T20:17:47.437

Link: CVE-2026-63296

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-12T20:45:08Z

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