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

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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

Published Jun 9, 2016

5.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.30%

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.30% 0.00303

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00303

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.30% (0.00303)	20.83th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.30% (0.00303)	21.73th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.03% (0.00035)	6.63th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-284

References (2)

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

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2988-1		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/news/		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner canonical

Published Jun 9, 2016

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Jan 12, 2016

Link CVE-2016-1581

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-1581

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-1581