CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5536
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-12-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276
Description
A feature in LXD (LP#1829071), affects the default configuration of Ubuntu Server which allows privileged users in the lxd group to escalate their privilege to root without requiring a sudo password.
Affected configurations
• canonical ubuntu linux (< 24.04)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1829071 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5536 Third Party Advisory
- https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/easy-multi-user-lxd-setup/26215/4 Vendor Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5536 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1829071 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5536 Third Party Advisory
- https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/easy-multi-user-lxd-setup/26215/4 Vendor Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5536 Vendor Advisory