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Critical · 9.9 CVE-2026-62940 EUVD-2026-63950

Incus has a project restriction bypass via instance migration config override

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

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.3.0, when migrating an instance to another cluster member, user-supplied configuration overrides (including security-critical keys like `security.privileged` and `raw.lxc`) are applied without any project restriction enforcement, allowing a restricted project user to escalate to a privileged container and escape to 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

Advisories 1

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