CVE-2026-47753 PUBLISHED

Incus has a Nil-Pointer Dereference Panic via Instance Backup Import (volume omitted)

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 19.05.2026 Published: 21.08.2026 Updated: 21.08.2026

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, (*backend).CreateInstanceFromBackup in internal/server/storage/backend.go 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 GHSA-fwj8-62r8-8p8m, GHSA-r7w7-mmxr-47r9, and GHSA-x5r6-jr56-89pv (all assigned 2026-05-04). Those patches added guards on adjacent fields of the same backup/config.Config struct; the Volume field on the instance-import path was missed. Version 7.1.0 contains an updated patch.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CVSS Score: 4.4

Product Status

Vendor lxc
Product incus
Versions
  • Version < 7.1.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference CWE