CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-85526
9.9 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Last modified
- 2026-09-29
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Path traversal in the Btrfs storage driver (unpackVolume) in Canonical LXD on Linux allows an authenticated user with instance creation privileges to delete or replace arbitrary files and directories on the host filesystem as root via a crafted subvolumes[].path entry in backup/optimized_header.yaml during a btrfs optimized backup import.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd-private/pull/103 github.com
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd-private/pull/104 github.com
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd-private/pull/105 github.com
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd-private/pull/84 github.com
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd-private/pull/87 github.com
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-h85r-gjgx-g2rv github.com