CVE-2026-28384
Publication date 12 March 2026
Last updated 12 March 2026
Ubuntu priority
Description
An improper sanitization of the compression_algorithm parameter in Canonical LXD allows an authenticated, unprivileged user to execute commands as the LXD daemon on the LXD server via API calls to the image and backup endpoints. This issue affected LXD from 4.12 through 6.6 and was fixed in the snap versions 5.0.6-e49d9f4 (channel 5.0/stable), 5.21.4-1374f39 (channel 5.21/stable), and 6.7-1f11451 (channel 6.0 stable). The channel 4.0/stable is not affected as it contains version 4.0.10.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| lxd | 25.10 questing | Not in release |
| 24.04 LTS noble | Not in release | |
| 22.04 LTS jammy | Not in release | |
| 20.04 LTS focal |
Not affected
|
|
| 18.04 LTS bionic |
Not affected
|
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| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Not affected
|
References
Other references
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28384
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-4rmf-rcp8-2r9g
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/commit/043696a13171ace7dd4c2b32d34ce039ab629052
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/commit/7046979645c2ce1b63b2f9e60ddf6cbc4c4b78f9
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/commit/b7b411caf5c4971bfe2386c72128f44d7e2aaf4f
- https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lxd-authenticated-remote-code-execution-fixes-available/78365