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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-62313 EUVD-2026-63986

Incus: Project restriction `restricted.containers.privilege=isolated` bypassable by omitting `security.idmap.isolated`

Published Aug 21, 2026 · Updated Aug 26, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.3.0, project-level enforcement of `restricted.containers.privilege=isolated` can be trivially bypassed, allowing a user to create a non-isolated (shared host idmap) container in a project that is configured to forbid them. The restriction only rejects an explicitly set `security.idmap.isolated=false` (or empty) and fails to enforce anything when the key is omitted entirely. Because an unset `security.idmap.isolated` defaults to `false` (non-isolation), a user simply leaves the key out and obtains exactly the container state the restriction is meant to forbid. This defeats the tenant-isolation guarantee the restriction exists to provide. Containers in the project share the host uid/gid map instead of receiving unique, non-overlapping ranges, weakening the isolation boundary between co-tenant containers and the host. Version 7.3.0 patches the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
lxc incus < 7.3.0 —

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 7.0.1-2 —
Debian 13 incus 6.0.4-2+deb13u9 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 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 Tumbleweed incus 7.4-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11651-1

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