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High · 7.2 CVE-2026-52727 EUVD-2026-82369

lxc-ci: Pacman keyring stored in archlinux image with a private key

Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

lxc-ci contains continuous integration and image-build scripts for LXC. Prior to the 2026-05-28 Arch Linux image publication, images built from images/archlinux.yaml retain the same pacman local-signing private key in /etc/pacman.d/gnupg and redistribute it to every container or virtual machine created from that image. An attacker who controls an HTTP package mirror or can intercept mirror traffic can use the shared pacman signing private key to sign modified packages that affected clients accept as trusted. Installing those packages permits arbitrary code execution as root on the client system. This issue is fixed in Arch Linux images published on or after 2026-05-28.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
lxc lxc-ci < 2026-05-28 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 lxc-ci 0.0~git20260914.1b378a7-1 —
Debian 13 lxc-ci No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 lxc-ci No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS lxc-ci No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS lxc-ci No fix yet —

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