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CVE-2025-54286

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-54286 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in LXD-UI within Canonical LXD versions 5.0 and newer on Linux. This flaw allows an attacker to create and start container instances without user consent by exploiting client certificate authentication through crafted HTML form submissions. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability presents a significant risk, enabling high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:lxd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.21.0, < 5.21.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:lxd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.1, < 6.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:lxd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.0, < 5.0.5CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:lxd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.21, < 5.21.4CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:lxd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
ACTIVE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
LOW
SS Integrity
LOW
SS Availability
LOW
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
2.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0012 is in the 1st percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/canonical/lxdFixed in: 5.0.5
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/canonical/lxdFixed in: 5.21.4
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/canonical/lxdFixed in: 6.5
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/canonical/lxdFixed in: 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41
github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-p8hw-rfjg-689hhigh

Canonical LXD CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI

Oct 2, 2025

References

github.com / canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-p8hw-rfjg-689h
ExploitVendor Advisory