LXD has CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup nil-pointer dereference on volumes[0].snapshots[].expiresat
CVE-2026-9639
LXD has CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup nil-pointer dereference on volumes[0].snapshots[].expiresat
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Medium
- EPSS
- 0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 6 November 2026
- Last updated
- 6 November 2026
- Assigner
- canonical
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
At the source
References
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-j93m-3j9p-m5m8
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/18320
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/18390
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9639
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/commit/05bc2729e99707a766d5c4705167a3322c9ef424
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/commit/c7cdfadb6044dfeaac592dc225978b4125ee23fe
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/commit/d15520809e6e2ac2af0c6354dfb7be5854b0e859
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/9xxx/CVE-2026-9639.json
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/lxd-5.0.7/lxd/storage/backend_lxd.go
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/releases/tag/lxd-5.21.5
- https://github.com/canonical/lxd/releases/tag/lxd-6.9
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