CVE-2026-63293

Name	CVE-2026-63293
Description	A link following vulnerability in LXD allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary file read and write operations on the host system. When importing or unpacking an image archive, LXD fails to validate whether the metadata.yaml file is a symbolic link. An attacker can exploit this flaw by providing a crafted image archive with a symlinked metadata.yaml file pointing to target file paths on the host system.
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)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
lxd (PTS)	bookworm, bookworm (security)	5.0.2-5+deb12u6	vulnerable
	trixie (security), trixie	5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u7	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
lxd	source	bookworm	(unfixed)	end-of-life
lxd	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

[bookworm] - lxd <end-of-life> (EOL in bookworm LTS)
https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-j825-cg34-5fr5