CVE-2025-54289 (GCVE-0-2025-54289)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-02 09:23
Modified
2025-10-03 13:15
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-1385 - Missing Origin Validation in WebSockets
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
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-3g72-chj4-2228
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-3g72-chj4-2228
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical LXD Version: 6   ≤
Version: 5.21   ≤
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