High severity · published Oct 2, 2025
CVE-2025-54286
CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI
8.8
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 2% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LX
LXD · Canonical
5.0 before 5.0.5; 5.21 before 5.21.4; 6.0 before 6.5 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54286
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54286
Exploit
https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-p8hw-rfjg-689h
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