CVE-2015-8222

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The lxd-unix.socket systemd unit file in the Ubuntu lxd package before 0.20-0ubuntu4.1 uses world-readable permissions for /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 15.10

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2809-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1515689
https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1307
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2809-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/+bug/1515689
https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1307

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