# CVE-2026-28384: Authenticated RCE via unsanitized compression\_algorithm

- Severity: CVSS 9.4 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.7, 5.21.4, 5.0.6
- Published: 2026-03-12 · Updated: 2026-03-13

## Affected

- lxd: from 6.0, fixed in 6.7; from 5.21.0, fixed in 5.21.4; from 5.0.0, fixed in 5.0.6

## Description

An improper sanitization of the compression_algorithm parameter in Canonical LXD allows an authenticated, unprivileged user to execute commands as the LXD daemon on the LXD server via API calls to the image and backup endpoints. This issue affected LXD from 4.12 through 6.6 and was fixed in the snap versions 5.0.6-e49d9f4 (channel 5.0/stable), 5.21.4-1374f39 (channel 5.21/stable), and 6.7-1f11451 (channel 6.0 stable). The channel 4.0/stable is not affected as it contains version 4.0.10.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on lxd, upgrade to a fixed version (6.7, 5.21.4, 5.0.6) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-4rmf-rcp8-2r9g
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/commit/043696a13171ace7dd4c2b32d34ce039ab629052
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/commit/7046979645c2ce1b63b2f9e60ddf6cbc4c4b78f9
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/commit/b7b411caf5c4971bfe2386c72128f44d7e2aaf4f
- https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lxd-authenticated-remote-code-execution-fixes-available/78365

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