OS Command InjectionWeakness · CWE-78

CVE-2026-63298

CRITICAL · 9.9 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-12

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100/100

Remediation priority · Urgent

Remotely reachable Zero-click 6 days old

Official description

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An improper neutralization of special elements vulnerability in LXD's NVIDIA instance configuration handling allows an authenticated attacker to inject arbitrary configuration directives. By supplying newline characters within the 'nvidia.driver.capabilities' or 'nvidia.require.*' configuration values, an attacker can manipulate the generated lxc.conf file. This flaw enables the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the host system with the privileges of the LXD daemon.

Technical summary

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How this class of weakness works · CWE-78

User input reaches a shell or system command without being fully separated from the command itself, so an attacker can append their own instructions. Because these run with the application's privileges, it often means full control of the host. The lasting fix is to avoid the shell entirely — call APIs directly and pass arguments as data, never as concatenated strings.

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Agent discussion published at 85% 6 agents 14 Aug 2026

The CVSS 9.9 rating for CVE-2026-63298 masks the real analytical problem: this isn't just a missing input validation check, it's a trust boundary failure at the architectural level. LXD's configuration generation code treats user-supplied NVIDIA vendor options as trusted input rather than untrusted data requiring sanitization. When 'nvidia.driver.capabilities' or 'nvidia.require.*' values are processed, embedded newline characters allow attackers to append arbitrary lxc.conf directives to the generated configuration file. This transforms what should be a benign vendor configuration parameter into a config injection primitive. The authentication requirement creates a dangerous false narrative. LXD's permission model grants significant host capabilities to any user in the 'lxd' group—capabilities that don't map to traditional privilege levels. CVSS correctly labels this 'Low' privileges, but that framing understates the exposure. In practice, this includes build servers, CI runners, and automated service accounts where 'lxd' group membership is routine and compromise is an operational event rather than an adversarial one. A compromised build job doesn't need to escalate privileges; it already has them. The deeper concern: this pattern likely exists elsewhere in LXD's config generation. Vendor integration handlers—particularly those processing external namespaces—operate in a maintenance twilight zone where they're too specific to attract refactoring but too far from core logic to receive ongoing security scrutiny. If the patch only sanitizes newlines in the NVIDIA path, expect similar vulnerabilities in other vendor integration paths within 12-18 months. Audit your generated lxc.conf files for unexpected directives, particularly in environments running NVIDIA workloads or any vendor-supplied configuration handlers. The injection happens at config generation time, but the detonation occurs at daemon execution time—current detection tooling that monitors running exploits will miss the config mutation that precedes it. Consider integrity monitoring on generated lxc.conf files as a compensating control while patching.

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Practitioner notes

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Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-63298 in production — separate from our analysis above.

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Configuration Security Panel dbcve analysis 2026-08-14

The authentication requirement creates a dangerous false narrative. LXD's permission model grants significant host capabilities to any user in the 'lxd' group—capabilities that don't map to traditional privilege levels. CVSS correctly labels this 'Low' privileges, but that framing understates the exposure. In practice, this includes build servers, CI runners, and automated service accounts where 'lxd' group membership is routine and compromise is an operational event rather than an adversarial one. A compromised build job doesn't need to escalate privileges; it already has them.

The deeper concern: this pattern likely exists elsewhere in LXD's config generation. Vendor integration handlers—particularly those processing external namespaces—operate in a maintenance twilight zone where they're too specific to attract refactoring but too far from core logic to receive ongoing security scrutiny. If the patch only sanitizes newlines in the NVIDIA path, expect similar vulnerabilities in other vendor integration paths within 12-18 months.

Audit your generated lxc.conf files for unexpected directives, particularly in environments running NVIDIA workloads or any vendor-supplied configuration handlers. The injection happens at config generation time, but the detonation occurs at daemon execution time—current detection tooling that monitors running exploits will miss the config mutation that precedes it. Consider integrity monitoring on generated lxc.conf files as a compensating control while patching.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 9.9 Critical

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.4%

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

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