CVE-2026-63299 PUBLISHED

Storage volume cross-project move and snapshot restore bypass project disk limits

Assigner: canonical
Reserved: 16.07.2026 Published: 12.08.2026 Updated: 12.08.2026

An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD allows an authenticated user to bypass project-level disk and volume limits. Two related code paths fail to verify resource limits during volume operations: the storagePoolVolumeTypePostMove function omits the limits.AllowVolumeCreation check before moving a volume across projects, and volume snapshot restore operations skip the AllowVolumeUpdate check when the configuration is nil (Config == nil). An attacker can exploit these flaws to allocate storage resources that exceed the administrative limits configured for a project.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.5

Product Status

Vendor Canonical
Product LXD
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5.0.0 to 5.0.8 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.21.0 to 5.21.6 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.0 to 6.10 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to LXD version 5.0.8 or later, 5.21.6 or later, or 6.10 or later.

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE

Impacts

  • Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
  • Privilege Abuse