Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-1581

Title: Canonical Lxd

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-1581.

CWE Category CWE-284

Published Date Jun 09, 2016

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.30%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-1581: LXD before 2.0.2 uses world-readable permissions for /var/lib/lxd/zfs.img when setting up a loop based ZFS pool, which allows local users to copy and read data from arbitrary containers via unspecified vectors.

Impacted Vendors

canonical 1

linuxcontainers 1

Reference Links

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2988-1 https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/news/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2988-1 https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/news/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-1581 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 09, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.