CVE-2026-87799

NameCVE-2026-87799
DescriptionImproper link resolution in the migration receive path in Canonical LXD versions 4.0 and later (fixed in 4.0.14, 5.0.10, 5.21.8 and 6.10) on Linux allows an authenticated client that can create instances or custom storage volumes in a project, or a malicious migration source server, to write attacker-controlled files to arbitrary paths on the target host as root, leading to full host compromise. The attacker does this with a crafted rsync or btrfs send stream that plants a symlink in the transferred volume, such as rootfs or root.img, and then writes through it.
SourceCVE (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 PackageReleaseVersionStatus
lxd (PTS)bookworm, bookworm (security)5.0.2-5+deb12u6vulnerable
trixie (security), trixie5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u7vulnerable

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
lxdsourcebookworm(unfixed)end-of-life
lxdsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

[bookworm] - lxd <end-of-life> (EOL in bookworm LTS)
https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-fmc3-3cpq-6whr

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