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High · 8.5 CVE-2026-63299 EUVD-2026-57418

Storage volume cross-project move and snapshot restore bypass project disk limits

Published Aug 12, 2026 · Updated Aug 12, 2026 · Assigned by canonical

Description

An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD allows an authenticated user to bypass project-level disk and volume limits. Two related code paths fail to verify resource limits during volume operations: the storagePoolVolumeTypePostMove function omits the limits.AllowVolumeCreation check before moving a volume across projects, and volume snapshot restore operations skip the AllowVolumeUpdate check when the configuration is nil (Config == nil). An attacker can exploit these flaws to allocate storage resources that exceed the administrative limits configured for a project.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Canonical LXD 5.0.0 – < 5.0.8, 5.21.0 – < 5.21.6, 6.0 – < 6.10 5.0.8

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 13 lxd No fix yet —
Debian 12 lxd No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS lxd No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS lxd No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS lxd No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 lxd 5.21.6-bp160.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21788-1

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