CVE-2025-54293 (GCVE-0-2025-54293)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-02 10:43
Modified
2025-10-02 15:53
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
Path Traversal in the log file retrieval function in Canonical LXD 5.0 LTS on Linux allows authenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files on the host system via crafted log file names or symbolic links.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-472f-vmf2-pr3h
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-472f-vmf2-pr3h
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical LXD Version: 6.0   ≤
Version: 5.21   ≤
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