CVE-2026-63299
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Description
An authorization bypass vulnerability in LXD allows an authenticated user to bypass project-level disk and volume limits. Two related code paths fail to verify resource limits during volume operations: the storagePoolVolumeTypePostMove function omits the limits.AllowVolumeCreation check before moving a volume across projects, and volume snapshot restore operations skip the AllowVolumeUpdate check when the configuration is nil (Config == nil). An attacker can exploit these flaws to allocate storage resources that exceed the administrative limits configured for a project.
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.9
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-08-12 20:17:47.830000
Last modified
2026-10-24 16:10:00.153000
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