Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-1582
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:49.352471558Z",
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"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2016-06-09T16:59:03.063+00:00"
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