Incus before 6.0.7, 6.1.0 before 7.0.2, and 7.1.0 before 7.5.0 Arbitrary File Write via Symlink in Migration Stream (lxc incus)

CVE-2026-115377
CRITICAL 9.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 35 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
VulnCheck
NVD status
Deferred

Description

Incus before 6.0.7, 6.1.0 before 7.0.2, and 7.1.0 before 7.5.0 contains an arbitrary file write vulnerability that allows malicious migration sources to write host files by planting symlinks in transferred volumes. Attackers can craft rsync or btrfs receive streams with a symlink such as rootfs pointing to the host root, writing files as root for full host compromise.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.4CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:HVulnCheck
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HVulnCheck
CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.4CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · disclosure@vulncheck.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · disclosure@vulncheck.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
lxc · incusaffected 0 < 6.0.7 ; unaffected 6.0.7 ; affected 6.1.0 < 7.0.2 ; unaffected 7.0.2 ; affected 7.1.0 < 7.5.0 ; unaffected 7.5.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD