Lxd vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product170 versions
The short answer

Lxd is made by Canonical. We track 12 published vulnerabilities in it, across 170 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Lxd, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Lxd vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Lxd's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Lxd flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 0.4%

    Information disclosure in images API in Canonical LXD before 6.5 and 5.21.4 on all platforms allows unauthenticated remote attackers to determine project existence via differing HTTP status code responses.

    CVSS5.3Published2 Oct 2025
  2. 0.4%

    Template Injection in instance snapshot creation component in Canonical LXD (>= 4.0) allows an attacker with instance configuration permissions to read arbitrary files on the host system via specially crafted...

    CVSS6.5Published2 Oct 2025
  3. 0.4%

    Information Spoofing in devLXD Server in Canonical LXD versions 4.0 and above on Linux container platforms allows attackers with root privileges within any container to impersonate other containers and obtain their...

    CVSS6.8Published2 Oct 2025
  4. 0.3%

    LXD before 2.0.2 does not properly set permissions when switching an unprivileged container into privileged mode, which allows local users to access arbitrary world readable paths in the container directory via...

    CVSS5.5Published9 Jun 2016
  5. 0.3%

    Information disclosure in image export API in Canonical LXD before 6.5 and 5.21.4 on Linux allows network attackers to determine project existence without authentication via crafted requests using wildcard fingerprints.

    CVSS5.3Published2 Oct 2025
  6. 0.3%

    LXD before 2.0.2 uses world-readable permissions for /var/lib/lxd/zfs.img when setting up a loop based ZFS pool, which allows local users to copy and read data from arbitrary containers via unspecified vectors.

    CVSS5.5Published9 Jun 2016
  7. 0.3%

    An insecure default to allow UEFI Shell in EDK2 was left enabled in Ubuntu's EDK2.

    CVSS6.7Published14 Feb 2024
  8. 0.2%

    An insecure default to allow UEFI Shell in EDK2 was left enabled in LXD.

    CVSS6.7Published14 Feb 2024
  9. 0.2%

    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...

    CVSS8.1Published2 Oct 2025
  10. 0.2%

    Mark Laing discovered that LXD's PKI mode, until version 5.21.2, could be bypassed if the client's certificate was present in the trust store.

    CVSS3.8Published6 Dec 2024
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We track 12 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Lxd, across 170 versions.

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