CVE•Published 2025-10-02•Modified 2026-10-12•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2025-54289Canonical · Lxd
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.1
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
10
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 90% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Privilege Escalation in operations API in Canonical LXD <6.5 on multiple platforms allows attacker with read permissions to hijack terminal or console sessions and execute arbitrary commands via WebSocket connection hijacking format
Timeline
Published 2025-10-02
Modified 2026-10-12
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2025-54289Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Canonical Lxd"All exposed Canonical Lxd instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Lxd"HTTP body or banner mentions "Lxd" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2025-54289Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2025-54289Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2025-54289Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2025-54289GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2025-54289" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2025-54289 on GitHub.