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CVE-2026-9639

Authenticated Denial of Service via Malicious Backup Tarball in LXD

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.21.5, 6.9
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Nil-pointer dereference in CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup in LXD up to version 6.8 and 5.21 on Linux allows an authenticated user with can_create_storage_volumes permissions to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted custom-volume backup tarball that omits the expires_at snapshot field.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • LXD

    From 5.21.0 · fixed in 5.21.5; From 6.0 · fixed in 6.9

References 3

GitHub · canonical/lxd