CSRF in LXD-UI (5.0) Allows Unauthed Container Creation
CVE-2025-54286 Published on October 2, 2025
CSRF Vulnerability When Using Client Certificate Authentication with the LXD-UI
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in LXD-UI in Canonical LXD versions >= 5.0 on Linux allows an attacker to create and start container instances without user consent via crafted HTML form submissions exploiting client certificate authentication.
Weakness Type
What is a Session Riding Vulnerability?
The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. When a web server is designed to receive a request from a client without any mechanism for verifying that it was intentionally sent, then it might be possible for an attacker to trick a client into making an unintentional request to the web server which will be treated as an authentic request. This can be done via a URL, image load, XMLHttpRequest, etc. and can result in exposure of data or unintended code execution.
CVE-2025-54286 has been classified to as a Session Riding vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-54286
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Affected Versions
Canonical LXD:- Version 5.0 and below 5.0.5 is affected.
- Version 5.21 and below 5.21.4 is affected.
- Version 6.0 and below 6.5 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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