CVE-2026-63293
High
High exploit probability or critical severity with a known exploit.
CVSS base
9.9
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.5%
40.3th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-59
Published 2026-08-12 · modified 2026-09-03
Description
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.