HIGHCVSS 8.4Vulnerability

CVE-2026-12411

### Summary A guest can mount another guest's custom storage volume over `/dev/lxd` and read or write its contents without owning it. The DevLXD storage API blocks access to volumes you don't own, but the instance device-update path that attaches a volume to a container without checks ownership. Any guest in a project with `security.devlxd.management.volumes` enabled can attach a volume belonging to a different guest by naming it in a device `PATCH`, giving one tenant full read and write access to another tenant's volume data. ### Details Volumes created over DevLXD get `volatile.devlxd.owner` set to the calling identity. The storage handlers enforce it on `GET`/`PUT`/`DELETE` ([`isDevLXDVolumeOwner`, lxd/devlxd_storage.go:359](https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/d29ece6284a78e6c21d276be4e5fb6fef697c35e/lxd/devlxd_storage.go#L359)) and on volume-copy sources ([devlxd_storage.go:286](https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/d29ece6284a78e6c21d276be4e5fb6fef697c35e/lxd/devlxd_storage.go#L286)). The device-attach path does not. `devLXDInstancePatchHandler` ([lxd/devlxd_instances.go:88](https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/d29ece6284a78e6c21d276be4e5fb6fef697c35e/lxd/devlxd_instances.go#L88)) passes the guest's device map to `generateDevLXDInstanceDevices` ([devlxd_instances.go:178](https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/d29ece6284a78e6c21d276be4e5fb6fef697c35e/lxd/devlxd_instances.go#L178)). For a device that isn't already on the instance, the only check is `isDeviceAccessible(device)`: ```go if (exists && !isOwned) || (!isDeviceAccessible(device)) ``` `exists` is false for a newly added device, so `isDeviceAccessible` is the whole gate. It resolves to `newDevLXDDeviceAccessValidator` ([devlxd_instances.go:250](https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/d29ece6284a78e6c21d276be4e5fb6fef697c35e/lxd/devlxd_instances.go#L250)), which is `diskDeviceAllowed && filters.IsCustomVolumeDisk(device)`. `IsCustomVolumeDisk` ([lxd/device/filters/disk.go:28](https://github.com/cano

Properties

Severity
high
Summary
lxd allows Cross-guest volume hijack via DevLXD device patch
Epss score
0.00288
Cvss score
8.4
Retrieved at
2026-11-05T18:09:44+00:00
Ghsa published
2026-11-05T17:40:59Z
Source url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhf9-qw4v-72xp
Ghsa updated
2026-11-05T17:41:02Z
Ghsa id
GHSA-hhf9-qw4v-72xp
Last source
FIRST EPSS
Cve id
CVE-2026-12411
Cvss vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
First seen by Signal
2026-11-05T18:04:03+00:00
Is ghsa only
false
Epss percentile
0.21484

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