Medium severity · published May 7, 2026
CVE-2026-41647
Incus: Nil-Pointer Dereference via S3 Bucket Import
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, a missing error handling could lead an authenticated Incus user to cause a daemon crash through the import of a truncated storage bucket backup file. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IN
incus · lxc
< 7.0.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41647
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-41647
Patch
https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/tag/v7.0.0
Exploit
https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-fwj8-62r8-8p8m
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