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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-1582

LXD before 2.0.2 does not properly set permissions when switching an unprivileged container into privileged mode, which allows local users to access arbitrary world readable paths in the container directory via unspecified vectors.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:09 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-1582

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Jun 2016, 16:59 UTC

LXD before 2.0.2 does not properly set permissions when switching an unprivileged container into privileged mode, which allows local users to access arbitrary world readable paths in the container directory via unspecified vectors.

osv:CVE-2016-1582
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1582",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-1582",
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      ],
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:49.352471558Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/news/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436966,
  "published_at": "2016-06-09T16:59:03.063+00:00"
}