- Critical 9.9
CVE-2026-85526
Path traversal in the Btrfs storage driver (unpackVolume) in Canonical LXD on Linux allows an authenticated user with instance creation privileges to delete or replace arbitrary files and directories on the host filesystem as root via a crafted subvolumes[].path entry in backup/optimized_header.yaml during a btrfs optimized backup import.
Scores
The facts
- Published
- 28 September 2026
- Last changed
- 29 September 2026
- NVD status
- Deferred
- Severity
- Critical, CVSS 9.9 out of 10 (version 3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- Known exploited
- Not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue in this build.
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days (percentile 43).
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