CVE-2026-34177 PUBLISHED

VM lowlevel restriction bypass via raw.apparmor and raw.qemu.conf

Assigner: canonical
Reserved: 26.03.2026 Published: 09.04.2026 Updated: 09.04.2026

Canonical LXD versions 4.12 through 6.7 contain an incomplete denylist in isVMLowLevelOptionForbidden (lxd/project/limits/permissions.go), which omits raw.apparmor and raw.qemu.conf from the set of keys blocked under the restricted.virtual-machines.lowlevel=block project restriction. A remote attacker with can_edit permission on a VM instance in a restricted project can inject an AppArmor rule and a QEMU chardev configuration that bridges the LXD Unix socket into the guest VM, enabling privilege escalation to LXD cluster administrator and subsequently to host root.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.1

Product Status

Vendor Canonical
Product lxd
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4.12.0 to 5.0.7 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.1.0 to 5.21.5 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.0.0 to 6.8.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Miha Purg finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-184 Incomplete list of disallowed inputs CWE