CVE-2026-23954

incus: Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager

CVE-2026-23954 is fixed in 11 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23954, released January 22, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
8.7
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0078
56th percentile

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Versions 6.21.0 and below allow a user with the ability to launch a container with a custom image (e.g a member of the ‘incus’ group) to use directory traversal or symbolic links in the templating functionality to achieve host arbitrary file read, and host arbitrary file write. This ultimately results in arbitrary command execution on the host. When using an image with a metadata.yaml containing templates, both the source and target paths are not checked for symbolic links or directory traversal. This can also be exploited in IncusOS. A fix is planned for versions 6.0.6 and 6.21.0, but they have not been released at the time of publication.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
govulncheck-vulndb · opensuse-leap 15.6 0.0.20260205T172317-150000.1.146.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0403-1 Feb 6, 2026
govulncheck-vulndb · opensuse-leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1 Jul 30, 2026
incus · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.0.4-2+deb13u4 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23954 Jan 22, 2026
incus · Debian 14 6.0.5-8 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23954 Jan 22, 2026
incus · Fedora 43 6.23-3.fc43 FEDORA-2026-094B7621CF Apr 10, 2026
incus-agent · Fedora 43 6.23-3.fc43 FEDORA-2026-094B7621CF Apr 10, 2026
incus-agent-debuginfo · Fedora 43 6.23-3.fc43 FEDORA-2026-094B7621CF Apr 10, 2026
incus-client · Fedora 43 6.23-3.fc43 FEDORA-2026-094B7621CF Apr 10, 2026
incus-client-debuginfo · Fedora 43 6.23-3.fc43 FEDORA-2026-094B7621CF Apr 10, 2026
incus-debuginfo · Fedora 43 6.23-3.fc43 FEDORA-2026-094B7621CF Apr 10, 2026
incus-debugsource · Fedora 43 6.23-3.fc43 FEDORA-2026-094B7621CF Apr 10, 2026
incus-tools · Fedora 43 6.23-3.fc43 FEDORA-2026-094B7621CF Apr 10, 2026
incus-tools-debuginfo · Fedora 43 6.23-3.fc43 FEDORA-2026-094B7621CF Apr 10, 2026
lxd · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u3 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23954 Jan 22, 2026

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