CVE-2025-54287Medium· 6.5▾ SunlitTemplate Injection in instance snapshot creation component in Canonical LXD (>= 4.0) allows an attacker with instance configuration permissions to read arbitrary files on the host system via specially crafted snapshot pattern templates …
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 35.8 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Aug 3.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
0.3%
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.3% → 0.4%
Template Injection in instance snapshot creation component in Canonical LXD (>= 4.0) allows an attacker with instance configuration permissions to read arbitrary files on the host system via specially crafted snapshot pattern templates using the Pongo2 template engine.
lxd >= 4.0.0, < 5.21.4lxd >= 6.1, < 6.5Upgrade past the affected range:
lxd 6.5Affected packages:
github.com/lxc/lxd >= 4.0.0, < 5.21.4github.com/lxc/lxd >= 6.0.0, < 6.5.0github.com/lxc/lxd >= 0.0.0-20200331193331-03aab09f5b5c, < 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41Patched in:
github.com/lxc/lxd 5.21.4github.com/lxc/lxd 6.5.0github.com/lxc/lxd 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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