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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-40251 EUVD-2026-28213GHSA-4m88-wxj4-9qj6GO-2026-5127

Incus out-of-bounds panic in snapshot metadata handling allows denial of service

Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 7, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. In versions before 7.0.0, missing validation logic in the storage volume import logic allows an authenticated user with access to the storage volume feature to cause the Incus daemon to crash. The backup restore subsystem contains an out-of-bounds panic vulnerability caused by an invalid bounds check when indexing snapshot metadata arrays, and the same flawed pattern also appears in the migration path. When iterating through physical snapshots provided in a backup archive, the loop uses the index to look up corresponding metadata in the parsed `Config.Snapshots` and `Config.VolumeSnapshots` slices. The guard condition `len(slice) >= i-1` is incorrect because it can still evaluate to true when the subsequent slice[i] access is out of bounds.

An attacker can submit a backup archive that contains physical snapshot directories while supplying a tampered `index.yaml` with an empty or truncated snapshot metadata array, causing the daemon to index beyond the end of the metadata slice and crash. Repeated use of this issue can be used to keep Incus offline, causing a denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 7.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
lxc incus < 7.0.0 —

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 7.0.0-1 —
Debian 13 incus 6.0.4-2+deb13u7 —
Debian 13 lxd 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u6 —
Debian 12 lxd No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 incus No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 incus No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS lxd No fix yet —
Show 4 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 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS lxd No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS lxd 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 7.0.0-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/lxc/incus all versions — GO-2026-5127
Go github.com/lxc/incus/v6 all versions — GO-2026-5127
Go github.com/lxc/incus/v6/cmd/incusd < 7.0.0 7.0.0 GHSA-4m88-wxj4-9qj6
Go github.com/lxc/incus/v7 < 7.0.0 7.0.0 GO-2026-5127

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