Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-54289

HighPublic PoC

Published: 02 October 2025

Published
02 October 2025
Modified
24 October 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 7.4 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0005 14.9th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-54289 is a high-severity Missing Origin Validation in WebSockets (CWE-1385) vulnerability in Canonical Lxd. Its CVSS base score is 7.4 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 14.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Privilege Escalation in operations API in Canonical LXD <6.5 on multiple platforms allows attacker with read permissions to hijack terminal or console sessions and execute arbitrary commands via WebSocket connection hijacking format

CWE(s)
CWE-1385

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

canonical
lxd
4.0.0 — 5.21.4 · 6.1 — 6.5

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References