High severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 2, 2025· Updated Oct 2, 2025

Arbitrary File Read via Template Injection in Snapshot Patterns

CVE-2025-54287

Description

Template Injection in instance snapshot creation component in Canonical LXD (>= 4.0) allows an attacker with instance configuration permissions to read arbitrary files on the host system via specially crafted snapshot pattern templates using the Pongo2 template engine.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
github.com/lxc/lxdGo	>= 4.0.0, < 5.21.4	5.21.4
github.com/lxc/lxdGo	>= 6.0.0, < 6.5.0	6.5.0
github.com/lxc/lxdGo	>= 0.0.0-20200331193331-03aab09f5b5c, < 0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41	0.0.0-20250827065555-0494f5d47e41

Affected products

Canonical (company)/Lxdv5
Range: 6.0

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-w2hg-2v4p-vmh6ghsaADVISORY
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54287ghsaADVISORY
github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-w2hg-2v4p-vmh6ghsaWEB
pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-4004ghsaWEB

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