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critical 9.9

CVE-2026-62940 json

Incus has a project restriction bypass via instance migration config override

published 3mo ago modified 27d ago also EUVD-2026-63950 , GHSA-qw5c-v953-38gw

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository lxc/incus. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
9.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.3.0, when migrating an instance to another cluster member, user-supplied configuration overrides (including security-critical keys like `security.privileged` and `raw.lxc`) are applied without any project restriction enforcement, allowing a restricted project user to escalate to a privileged container and escape to the host. Version 7.3.0 patches the issue.

Patch / fix

  • linuxcontainers incus 7.3.0
  • incus Debian 13 6.0.4-2+deb13u9
  • incus Debian 14 7.0.1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-62940

  • incus openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.4-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11651-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-62940 updated cvss 9.9

incus: Incus has a project restriction bypass via instance migration config override

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • lxc incus

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of lxc/incus published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.