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CVE-2016-1581

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

LXD before 2.0.2 uses world-readable permissions for /var/lib/lxd/zfs.img when setting up a loop based ZFS pool, which allows local users to copy and read data from arbitrary containers via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical LXD: through 2.0.1
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 15.10, 16.04

References

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2988-1
• https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/news/
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2988-1
• https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/news/

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