CVE-2025-54286
published 2025-10-02CVE-2025-54286: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5.0 on Linux allows an attacker to create and start container instances without user…
PriorityP344high8.8CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH
EPSS
0.12%
2.1th percentile
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5.0 on Linux allows an attacker to create and start container instances without user consent via crafted HTML form submissions exploiting client certificate authentication.
Affected
14 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | lxd | >= 0 < 5.0.2-5+deb12u1 | 5.0.2-5+deb12u1 |
| canonical | lxd | >= 0 < 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u1 | 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u1 |
| canonical | lxd | >= 5.0 < 5.0.5 | 5.0.5 |
| canonical | lxd | >= 5.0.0 < 5.0.5 | 5.0.5 |
| canonical | lxd | >= 5.21 < 5.21.4 | 5.21.4 |
| canonical | lxd | >= 5.21.0 < 5.21.4 | 5.21.4 |
| canonical | lxd | >= 6.0 < 6.5 | 6.5 |
| canonical | lxd | >= 6.1 < 6.5 | 6.5 |
| debian | incus | < incus 6.0.5-1 (forky) | incus 6.0.5-1 (forky) |
| debian | lxd | < incus 6.0.5-1 (forky) | incus 6.0.5-1 (forky) |
| github.com | canonical_lxd | >= 0.0.0-20220401034332-1e1349e3cbf3 < 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41 | 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41 |
| github.com | canonical_lxd | >= 5.0 < 5.0.5 | 5.0.5 |
| github.com | canonical_lxd | >= 5.1 < 5.21.4 | 5.21.4 |
| github.com | canonical_lxd | >= 6.0 < 6.5 | 6.5 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.18.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv4.07.5HIGHCVSS: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
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_debian7.5HIGH
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OSV
CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI in github.com/canonical/lxd
osv·2025-11-05
CVE-2025-54286 CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI in github.com/canonical/lxd
CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI in github.com/canonical/lxd
CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI in github.com/canonical/lxd
OSV
Canonical LXD CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI
osv·2025-10-02
CVE-2025-54286 [HIGH] Canonical LXD CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI
Canonical LXD CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI
### Description
OIDC authentication uses cookies with the SameSite=Strict attribute, preventing cookies from being sent with requests from other sites. Therefore, CSRF does not occur as long as web services in a Same Site relationship (same eTLD+1) with the origin running LXD-UI are trusted.
However, since the SameSite concept does not apply to client certificates, CSRF protection that doesn't rely on the SameSite attribute is necessary.
Note that when using cross-origin fetch API, client certificates are not sent in no-cors mode due to CORS restrictions (according to the WHATWG Fetch specification(https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#credentials), client certificates are treated as credentials), mak
GHSA
Canonical LXD CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI
ghsa·2025-10-02
CVE-2025-54286 [HIGH] CWE-352 Canonical LXD CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI
Canonical LXD CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI
### Description
OIDC authentication uses cookies with the SameSite=Strict attribute, preventing cookies from being sent with requests from other sites. Therefore, CSRF does not occur as long as web services in a Same Site relationship (same eTLD+1) with the origin running LXD-UI are trusted.
However, since the SameSite concept does not apply to client certificates, CSRF protection that doesn't rely on the SameSite attribute is necessary.
Note that when using cross-origin fetch API, client certificates are not sent in no-cors mode due to CORS restrictions (according to the WHATWG Fetch specification(https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#credentials), client certificates are treated as credentials), mak
OSV
CVE-2025-54286: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5
osv·2025-10-02·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2025-54286 [HIGH] CVE-2025-54286: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5.0 on Linux allows an attacker to create and start container instances without user consent via crafted HTML form submissions exploiting client certificate authentication.
Debian
CVE-2025-54286: incus - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5.0 on ...
vendor_debian·2025·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2025-54286 [HIGH] CVE-2025-54286: incus - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5.0 on ...
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5.0 on Linux allows an attacker to create and start container instances without user consent via crafted HTML form submissions exploiting client certificate authentication.
Scope: local
forky: resolved (fixed in 6.0.5-1)
sid: resolved (fixed in 6.0.5-1)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 6.0.4-2+deb13u1)
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
No writeups or analysis indexed.
2025-10-02
Published