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High · 8.6 CVE-2025-64507 EUVD-2025-50816GHSA-56mx-8g9f-5crfGO-2025-4115

Incus vulnerable to local privilege escalation through custom storage volumes

Published Nov 10, 2025 · Updated Nov 12, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. An issue in versions prior to 6.0.6 and 6.19.0 affects any Incus user in an environment where an unprivileged user may have root access to a container with an attached custom storage volume that has the `security.shifted` property set to `true` as well as access to the host as an unprivileged user. The most common case for this would be systems using `incus-user` with the less privileged `incus` group to provide unprivileged users with an isolated restricted access to Incus. Such users may be able to create a custom storage volume with the necessary property (depending on kernel and filesystem support) and can then write a setuid binary from within the container which can be executed as an unprivileged user on the host to gain root privileges. A patch for this issue is expected in versions 6.0.6 and 6.19.0. As a workaround, permissions can be manually restricted until a patched version of Incus is deployed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
lxc incus < 6.0.6, >= 6.1.0, < 6.19.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 incus 6.0.5-4 —
Debian 13 incus 6.0.4-2+deb13u2 DSA-6051-1
Debian 13 lxd 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u2 —
Debian 12 lxd 5.0.2-5+deb12u2 DSA-6057-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 incus No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS incus No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS incus No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 incus 6.0.6-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 incus 6.0.6-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/lxc/incus all versions — GO-2025-4115
Go github.com/lxc/incus/v6 < 6.19.0 6.19.0 GHSA-56mx-8g9f-5crf
Go github.com/lxc/incus/v6 >= 6.1.0 — GO-2025-4115

Advisories 3

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