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CVE-2026-48751: Incus has a restricted project bypass leading to arbitrary command execution

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-21 · updated 2026-10-15
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.2.0, instance snapshots ignore the `restricted.containers.lowlevel=block` setting; allowing for arbitrary command execution on the Incus server by abusing lowlevel hooks such as `raw.lxc` and `raw.qemu`. Version 7.2.0 patches the issue.

Affected products

• lxc incus: before 7.2.0

References

• https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-48q5-w887-33wv
• https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-48q5-w887-33wv

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