CVE-2026-63297

CRITICAL
INFO Priority: 0.03 BB Relevance: 70/100
Published: 2026-08-12 Modified: 2026-10-24 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact Scope Change

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Changed
C: High
I: High
A: High

Description

An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD due to a timing flaw during configuration merging allows an authenticated attacker to bypass target project restrictions during cross-project instance copies. When copying an instance to a target project, LXD performs restriction checks before configuration merging is complete, creating a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) condition. An attacker can exploit this flaw to copy instances with disallowed high-privilege configurations into restricted projects, bypassing security controls.

Weakness Classification (2)

Affected Software (3)

VendorProductVersion
canonical lxd 5.0.0 – 5.0.8
canonical lxd 5.1 – 5.21.6
canonical lxd 6.0 – 6.9

References & Advisories (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

70 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

9.9 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.34%
Raw Score 0.003430
Percentile 27.8%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00343
2026-10-28
0.00343

Intelligence Sources

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