Findings

CVE-2026-47753

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager.

Published Aug 21, 2026 · updated Oct 15, 2026

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, in contains a nil-pointer dereference that an authenticated user with permission to create instances in any project can trigger remotely by uploading a crafted backup tarball. The Incus daemon panics and the process crashes, causing denial of service to every project on that cluster member. This is a sibling of , , and (all assigned 2026-05-04). Those patches added guards on adjacent fields of the same struct; the field on the instance-import path was missed. Version 7.1.0 contains an updated patch.

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  1. Aug 21, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, in contains a nil-pointer dereference that an authenticated user with permission to create instances in any project can trigger remotely by uploading a crafted backup tarball. The Incus daemon panics and the process crashes, causing denial of service to every project on that cluster member. This is a sibling of , , an

  2. Oct 15, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, in contains a nil-pointer dereference that an authenticated user with permission to create instances in any project can trigger remotely by uploading a crafted backup tarball. The Incus daemon panics and the process crashes, causing denial of service to every project on that cluster member. This is a sibling of , , an

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-47753

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-47753

    Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, in contains a nil-pointer dereference that an authenticated user with permission to create instances in any project can trig

    nvd.nist.gov

References

CVE-2026-47753 · ZeroDay Findings