CVE detail

CVE-2023-5536 — CVE-2023-5536

Published 2023-12-12 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor canonical · Product ubuntu_linux · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

5.0

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0024

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

16.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A feature in LXD (LP#1829071), affects the default configuration of Ubuntu Server which allows privileged users in the lxd group to escalate their privilege to root without requiring a sudo password.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.