CVE-2015-1340

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.009 · 59 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.90% (59th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

LXD before version 0.19-0ubuntu5 doUidshiftIntoContainer() has an unsafe Chmod() call that races against the stat in the Filepath.Walk() function. A symbolic link created in that window could cause any file on the system to have any mode of the attacker's choice.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–8.1

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 5.9

v3.07highCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.07highCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · security@ubuntu.comexploitability 0.4 · impact 6

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.07.4highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-362USprimaryCWE-362US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Ubuntu LXDunspecified → 0.19-0ubuntu5enisa_euvdEU
linuxcontainers lxdall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:linuxcontainers:lxd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go github.com/lxc/lxd< 0.0.0-20151004155856-19c6961cc101osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/lxc/lxd

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-8mpq-fmr3-6jxvLXD vulnerable to Race Condition2022-05-24ghsa · osvUS
LXD before version 0.19-0ubuntu5 `doUidshiftIntoContainer()` has an unsafe `Chmod()` call that races against the stat in the `Filepath.Walk()` function. A symbolic link created in that window could cause any file on the system to have any mode of the attacker's choice. ### Specific Go Packages Affected github.com/lxc/lxd/shared
GO-2021-0071Race condition in github.com/lxc/lxd2021-04-14vendor · osvUS
A race between chown and chmod operations during a container filesystem shift may allow a user who can modify the filesystem to chmod an arbitrary path of their choice, rather than the expected path.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-04-22modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

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