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Publication date: 2025-10-02

Last updated on: 2025-10-24

Assigner: Canonical Ltd.

Description

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.

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Meta Information

Published

2025-10-02

Last Modified

2025-10-24

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-10-02

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-54290

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
canonical	lxd	From 4.0.0 (inc) to 5.21.4 (exc)
canonical	lxd	From 6.1 (inc) to 6.5 (exc)
linux	linux_kernel	From 5.15.160 (inc) to 5.16 (inc)

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-200	The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
CWE-NVD-CWE-noinfo

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is an information disclosure issue in the image export API of Canonical LXD versions before 6.5 and 5.21.4 on Linux. It allows network attackers to determine the existence of projects without authentication by sending specially crafted requests using wildcard fingerprints.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can allow an unauthenticated network attacker to discover whether certain projects exist on the affected LXD system. This information disclosure could potentially be used to aid further attacks or reconnaissance.

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