CVE-2026-33897

incus: Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager

CVE-2026-33897 is fixed in 11 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33897, released March 26, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Urgent.

Urgent
CVSS
9.9
critical
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0049
42nd percentile

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 6.23.0, instance template files can be used to cause arbitrary read or writes as root on the host server. Incus allows for pongo2 templates within instances which can be used at various times in the instance lifecycle to template files inside of the instance. This particular implementation of pongo2 within Incus allowed for file read/write but with the expectation that the pongo2 chroot feature would isolate all such access to the instance's filesystem. This was allowed such that a template could theoretically read a file and then generate a new version of said file. Unfortunately the chroot isolation mechanism is entirely skipped by pongo2 leading to easy access to the entire system's filesystem with root privileges. Version 6.23.0 patches the issue.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
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+deb13u5 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33897 Mar 26, 2026
incus · Debian 14 6.0.6-2 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33897 Mar 26, 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+deb13u4 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33897 Mar 26, 2026

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