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CVE-2024-6156

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

Mark Laing discovered that LXD's PKI mode, until version 5.21.2, could be bypassed if the client's certificate was present in the trust store.

Affected products

• Canonical LXD: from 4.0.0 before 4.0.10; from 5.0.0 before 5.0.4; from 5.1 before 5.21.2 — fixed in 4.0.10, 5.0.4, 5.21.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Canonical LXD 4.0.10, 5.0.4, 5.21.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-4c49-9fpc-hc3v
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6156

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