CVE•Published 2026-08-12•Modified 2026-09-03•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-63293Canonical · Lxd
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.9
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
31
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 69% of all CVEs
Description
A link following vulnerability in LXD allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary file read and write operations on the host system. When importing or unpacking an image archive, LXD fails to validate whether the metadata.yaml file is a symbolic link. An attacker can exploit this flaw by providing a crafted image archive with a symlinked metadata.yaml file pointing to target file paths on the host system.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-09-03
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-2026-63293Hosts 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-2026-63293Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-63293Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-63293Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-63293GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-63293" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-63293 on GitHub.