CVE-2016-1582: Canonical Lxd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

LXD before 2.0.2 does not properly set permissions when switching an unprivileged container into privileged mode, which allows local users to access arbitrary world readable paths in the container directory via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical Lxd: version 2.0.1 only
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only

Published 2016-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.