CVE-2026-63297CWE-367CWE-863broken-access-control

CVE-2026-63297

Critical · published August 13, 2026

CVSS v3.1
9.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
26.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.9 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00343 · 26.6th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition; CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
Published
2026-08-13T00:17Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
canonical/lxd≥ 5.0.0, < 5.0.85.0.8
canonical/lxd≥ 5.1, < 5.21.65.21.6
canonical/lxd≥ 6.0, < 6.96.9
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 AUG 19:25Z
    Cross-project instance copy bypasses target project restrictions via TOCTOU in config merge
    cvelistv5