| Name | CVE-2025-54289 |
| Description | 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 |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-6027-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| incus (PTS) | trixie | 6.0.4-2 | vulnerable |
| trixie (security) | 6.0.4-2+deb13u1 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 6.0.5-3 | fixed |
| lxd (PTS) | bookworm | 5.0.2-5 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 5.0.2-5+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9 | vulnerable |
| trixie (security) | 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| incus | source | trixie | 6.0.4-2+deb13u1 | | DSA-6027-1 | |
| incus | source | (unstable) | 6.0.5-1 | | | |
| lxd | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[trixie] - lxd <no-dsa> (Minor issue, no fixed planned by upstream for 5.0)
[bookworm] - lxd <no-dsa> (Minor issue, no fixed planned by upstream for 5.0)
https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-3g72-chj4-2228