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CVE-2016-1582

• 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-200

Description

LXD before 2.0.2 does not properly set permissions when switching an unprivileged container into privileged mode, which allows local users to access arbitrary world readable paths in the container directory via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical LXD: 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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