Medium 6.5Published Jun 26, 2026

CVE-2026-9639Nil-pointer dereference in CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup in LXD up to version 6.8 and 5.21 on Linux allows an authenticated user with can_create_storage_volumes permissions to cause a denial of servic…

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 08:00 UTC)

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Nil-pointer dereference in CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup in LXD up to version 6.8 and 5.21 on Linux allows an authenticated user with can_create_storage_volumes permissions to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted custom-volume backup tarball that omits the expires_at snapshot field.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-476
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jul 2, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

canonical lxd canonical:lxd	from 5.0.0 before 5.21.5; from 6.0 before 6.9	NVD

References

https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/18320issue-tracking, patch
https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/18390issue-tracking, patch
https://github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-j93m-3j9p-m5m8exploit, patch, vendor-advisory

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