CVE-2025-54289
Privilege Escalation via WebSocket Connection Hijacking in Operations API in github.com/canonical/lxd
6.8
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.04%
Description
Privilege Escalation in operations API in Canonical LXD <6.5 on multiple platforms allows attacker with read permissions to hijack terminal or console sessions and execute arbitrary commands via WebSocket connection hijacking format
How to fix CVE-2025-54289
To remediate CVE-2025-54289, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 6.0.4-2+deb13u1 or later
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 5.21.4 or later
- —no fix listed
Is CVE-2025-54289 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 6.0.4-2+deb13u1
- from 0
- >= 4.0, < 5.21.4
- from 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |