CVE-2026-33945

incus: Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager

CVE-2026-33945 is fixed in 10 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33945, released March 27, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Urgent.

Urgent
CVSS
9.6
critical
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0046
39th percentile

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Incus instances have an option to provide credentials to systemd in the guest. For containers, this is handled through a shared directory. Prior to version 6.23.0, an attacker can set a configuration key named something like `systemd.credential.../../../../../../root/.bashrc` to cause Incus to write outside of the `credentials` directory associated with the container. This makes use of the fact that the Incus syntax for such credentials is `systemd.credential.XYZ` where `XYZ` can itself contain more periods. While it's not possible to read any data this way, it's possible to write to arbitrary files as root, enabling both privilege escalation and denial of service attacks. Version 6.23.0 fixes 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 6.0.6-2 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33945 Mar 27, 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

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