CVE-2026-40251

incus: Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager

CVE-2026-40251 is fixed in 3 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40251, released May 15, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
6.5
medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0041
35th percentile

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. In versions before 7.0.0, missing validation logic in the storage volume import logic allows an authenticated user with access to the storage volume feature to cause the Incus daemon to crash. The backup restore subsystem contains an out-of-bounds panic vulnerability caused by an invalid bounds check when indexing snapshot metadata arrays, and the same flawed pattern also appears in the migration path. When iterating through physical snapshots provided in a backup archive, the loop uses the index to look up corresponding metadata in the parsed `Config.Snapshots` and `Config.VolumeSnapshots` slices. The guard condition `len(slice) >= i-1` is incorrect because it can still evaluate to true when the subsequent slice[i] access is out of bounds. An attacker can submit a backup archive that contains physical snapshot directories while supplying a tampered `index.yaml` with an empty or truncated snapshot metadata array, causing the daemon to index beyond the end of the metadata slice and crash. Repeated use of this issue can be used to keep Incus offline, causing a denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 7.0.0.

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+deb13u7 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40251 May 15, 2026
incus · Debian 14 7.0.0-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40251 May 15, 2026
lxd · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 5.0.2+git20231211.1364ae4-9+deb13u6 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40251 May 15, 2026

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