What is CVE-2025-54291?

CVE-2025-54291 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Lxd, classified under Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-10-02.

How severe is CVE-2025-54291?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Canonical Lxd

CVE-2025-54291

Information disclosure in images API in Canonical LXD before 6.5 and 5.21.4 on all platforms allows unauthenticated remote attackers to determine project existence via differing HTTP status code responses.

Published 2025-10-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (30.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 30.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Canonical Lxd — versions 6.0, 5.21

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-209 — Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

References

github.com/canonical/lxd/security/advisories/GHSA-xch9-h8qw-85c7 (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-54291?: CVE-2025-54291 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Lxd, classified under Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-10-02.
How severe is CVE-2025-54291?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.