An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD allows an authenticated attacker to bypass target project restrictions during instance migration. When migrating an instance to a target project, LXD accepts configuration overrides without validating the new configuration against the target project's enforced restrictions. An attacker can exploit this flaw to move instances with disallowed high-privilege configurations into restricted projects, bypassing security controls.
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First Time appeared Canonical
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Vendors & Products Canonical
Canonical lxd

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Description An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD allows an authenticated attacker to bypass target project restrictions during instance migration. When migrating an instance to a target project, LXD accepts configuration overrides without validating the new configuration against the target project's enforced restrictions. An attacker can exploit this flaw to move instances with disallowed high-privilege configurations into restricted projects, bypassing security controls.
Title Project restriction bypass via instance migration config override
Weaknesses CWE-863
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-12T19:27:45.736Z

Reserved: 2026-07-16T09:49:29.911Z

Link: CVE-2026-63296

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-12T20:17:47.437

Modified: 2026-08-12T20:17:47.437

Link: CVE-2026-63296

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-12T23:00:05Z