CVE-2025-54289GO-2025-3999GHSA-3G72-CHJ4-2228
Privilege Escalation via WebSocket Connection Hijacking in LXD Operations API
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 6.5, 5.21.4, 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
CISA's decision points: whether it is exploited, whether attacks can be automated, and how much control an attacker gets. Assessed (SSVC 2.0.3).What do these mean? →
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: total
Summary
Privilege Escalation in operations API in Canonical LXD <6.5 on multiple platforms allows attacker with read permissions to hijack terminal or console sessions and execute arbitrary commands via WebSocket connection hijacking format
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- Canonical LXD
From 6 · fixed in 6.5; From 5.21 · fixed in 5.21.4
- github.com/canonical/lxdGo
All versions
- github.com/canonical/lxdGo
From 4.0 · fixed in 5.21.4
- github.com/canonical/lxdGo
From 6.0 · fixed in 6.5
- github.com/canonical/lxdGo
From 0.0.0-20200331193331-03aab09f5b5c · fixed in 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41