CVE-2026-34177

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

09/04/2026

Last modified:

22/04/2026

Description

Canonical LXD versions 4.12 through 6.7 contain an incomplete denylist in isVMLowLevelOptionForbidden (lxd/project/limits/permissions.go), which omits raw.apparmor and raw.qemu.conf from the set of keys blocked under the restricted.virtual-machines.lowlevel=block project restriction. A remote attacker with can_edit permission on a VM instance in a restricted project can inject an AppArmor rule and a QEMU chardev configuration that bridges the LXD Unix socket into the guest VM, enabling privilege escalation to LXD cluster administrator and subsequently to host root.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.10 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.10

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:lxd::::::::	4.12 (including)	5.0.6 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:lxd::::::::	5.21.0 (including)	5.21.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:lxd::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.7 (including)

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CVE-2026-34177

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools