CVE-2025-54289 (GCVE-0-2025-54289)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-02 09:23 – Updated: 2025-10-03 13:15
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Summary
Privilege Escalation in operations API in Canonical LXD <6.5 on multiple platforms allows attacker with read permissions to hijack terminal or console sessions and execute arbitrary commands via WebSocket connection hijacking format
CWE
  • CWE-1385 - Missing Origin Validation in WebSockets
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical LXD Affected: 6 , < 6.5 (semver)
Affected: 5.21 , < 5.21.4 (semver)
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Credits
GMO Flatt Security Inc.
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