CRITICALCVE-2026-34177Published Modified CNA canonical
CVE-2026-34177: VM lowlevel restriction bypass via raw.apparmor and raw.qemu.conf
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.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 9.1
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- Fixed in
- 5.0.7
- Affected Products
- 1
Fix available
5.0.75.21.56.8.0
Affected packages
- Canonical / lxd< 5.0.7 (from 4.12.0) · < 5.21.5 (from 5.1.0) · < 6.8.0 (from 6.0.0)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H