CVE-2026-63293
⛔ criticalSummary
A link following vulnerability in LXD allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary file read and write operations on the host system. When importing or unpacking an image archive, LXD fails to validate whether the metadata.yaml file is a symbolic link. An attacker can exploit this flaw by providing a crafted image archive with a symlinked metadata.yaml file pointing to target file paths on the host system.
CVSS Score
9.9
Critical
EPSS Score
-
Published Date
2026-08-12
First Seen: 2026-08-13
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence
This CVE is Extremely High Risk - more severe than 98.1% of all 344,170 vulnerabilities in our database.
#6,378
Top 5% most severe
Severity Percentile
Last Modified
2026-08-12
Source
NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE IDs (Weakness Types)