CVE-2026-41647 PUBLISHED

Incus: Nil-Pointer Dereference via S3 Bucket Import

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 21.04.2026 Published: 07.05.2026 Updated: 07.05.2026

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, a missing error handling could lead an authenticated Incus user to cause a daemon crash through the import of a truncated storage bucket backup file. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	lxc
Product	incus
Versions	Version < 7.0.0 is affected

References

https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-fwj8-62r8-8p8m
https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/tag/v7.0.0

Problem Types

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference CWE