CVE-2026-33898

incus: Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager

CVE-2026-33898 is fixed in 2 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33898, released March 27, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
8.8
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0035
29th percentile

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 6.23.0, the web server spawned by `incus webui` incorrectly validates the authentication token such that an invalid value will be accepted. `incus webui` runs a local web server on a random localhost port. For authentication, it provides the user with a URL containing an authentication token. When accessed with that token, Incus creates a cookie persisting that token without needing to include it in subsequent HTTP requests. While the Incus client correctly validates the value of the cookie, it does not correctly validate the token when passed int the URL. This allows for an attacker able to locate and talk to the temporary web server on localhost to have as much access to Incus as the user who ran `incus webui`. This can lead to privilege escalation by another local user or an access to the user's Incus instances and possibly system resources by a remote attack able to trick the local user into interacting with the Incus UI web server. 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 14 7.0.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33898 Mar 27, 2026

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