What is CVE-2016-1582?

CVE-2016-1582 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Lxd, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-06-09.

How severe is CVE-2016-1582?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Canonical Lxd

CVE-2016-1582

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2016-06-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (25.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 26th percentile — 25.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Canonical Lxd — versions 2.0.1
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 15.10, 16.04

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

linuxcontainers.org/lxd/news/ (Vendor Advisory)
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2988-1 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1582?: CVE-2016-1582 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Lxd, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-06-09.
How severe is CVE-2016-1582?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.