CVE-2026-63298
⛔ criticalSummary
An improper neutralization of special elements vulnerability in LXD's NVIDIA instance configuration handling allows an authenticated attacker to inject arbitrary configuration directives. By supplying newline characters within the 'nvidia.driver.capabilities' or 'nvidia.require.*' configuration values, an attacker can manipulate the generated lxc.conf file. This flaw enables the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the host system with the privileges of the LXD daemon.
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)