# CVE-2025-54292: Client-Side Path Traversal in LXD-UI

> Authenticated attackers can access or modify unintended resources in LXD-UI via crafted resource names in URL paths.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 2 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7425-4qpj-v4w3

## What is CVE-2025-54292?

CVE-2025-54292 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical LXD, published on 2 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Path traversal in Canonical LXD LXD-UI versions before 6.5 and 5.21.4 on all platforms allows remote authenticated attackers to access or modify unintended resources via crafted resource names embedded in URL paths.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-54292?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Canonical Lxd.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-54292?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-54292 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-54292 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-54292 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Canonical LXD

- [CVE-2026-66897](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-66897/): Instance template path traversal allows arbitrary host file write as root (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2026-62420](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-62420/): Cross-project cluster migration bypasses project restrictions via cluster notification flag (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2026-63293](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-63293/): Arbitrary File Read/Write: metadata.yaml symlink in image allows host filesystem access as root (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2026-63294](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-63294/): Root RCE via image backup.yaml symlink (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2026-63296](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-63296/): Project restriction bypass via instance migration config override (critical 9.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-54292 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-54292 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical LXD, published on 2 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-54292 exists.

Affected product: Canonical LXD. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54292/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54292/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54292
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54292
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54292

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-54292/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.