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Project existence disclosure in LXD images API

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Information disclosure in images API in Canonical LXD before 6.5 and 5.21.4 on all platforms allows unauthenticated remote attackers to determine project existence via differing HTTP status code responses.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2025-54291
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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3 Nov 2026, 10:53 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Project existence disclosure in LXD images API

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Oct 2025, 09:25 UTC

Information disclosure in images API in Canonical LXD before 6.5 and 5.21.4 on all platforms allows unauthenticated remote attackers to determine project existence via differing HTTP status code responses.

osv:CVE-2025-54291
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54291",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Project existence disclosure in LXD images API",
    "summary": "Information disclosure in images API in Canonical LXD before 6.5 and 5.21.4 on all platforms allows unauthenticated remote attackers to determine project existence via differing HTTP status code responses.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-54291",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2025-54291",
      "aliases": [
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        "GHSA-xch9-h8qw-85c7",
        "GO-2025-4005"
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          "type": "CVSS_V4",
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"
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      ],
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              "type": "GIT",
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                },
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.252806015Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-xch9-h8qw-85c7",
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      ],
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 494688,
  "published_at": "2025-10-02T09:25:42.466+00:00"
}