MediumFix available
incus, lxd — security advisory
Template Injection in instance snapshot creation component in Canonical LXD (>= 4.0) allows an attacker with instance configuration permissions to read arbitrary files on the host system via specially crafted snapshot pattern templates using the Pongo2 template engine.
- Products
- incus, lxd
- Affected versions
- 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-1, 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-2, 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-3, 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-4, 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-5, 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-6, 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-7, 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-8, 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9, 5.0.2-5, 5.0.2-5+deb12u1, 5.0.2-5+deb12u2, 5.0.2-5+deb12u3, 5.0.2-5+deb12u4, 5.0.2-5+deb12u5, 5.0.2-5+deb12u6, 5.0.2-6, 6.0.4-2, 6.0.4-2+deb13u1~bpo12+1, 6.0.4-3
- Fixed versions
- 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u1, 6.0.4-2+deb13u1, 6.0.5-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-54287
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 09:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Template Injection in instance snapshot creation component in Canonical LXD (>= 4.0) allows an attacker with instance configuration permissions to read arbitrary files on the host system via specially crafted snapshot pattern templates using the Pongo2 template engine.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2025-54287
incus
Fixed versions: 6.0.4-2+deb13u1
incus
Fixed versions: 6.0.5-1
lxd
Fixed versions: Not specified
lxd
Fixed versions: 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u1
Complete source record
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"5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9",
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"modified": "2026-10-13T09:47:30.605085479Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2025-10-02T10:15:38.707+00:00"
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