Security Advisory

CVE-2026-63343

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-21 14:53:26
Last updated 2026-08-21 21:44:03
Assigner GitHub_M
CVSS score 9.9
State PUBLISHED

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.3.0, a malicious image containing a `metadata.yaml` symlink pointing to an arbitrary host path allows an authenticated Incus user to read or overwrite any file on the host as root via the instance metadata API. The `exec-output` and `templates/` paths were patched in a prior release using `Lstat` rejection and `os.OpenRoot` confinement; `metadata.yaml` was not included in either patch and remains exploitable. Version 7.3.0 patches the issue.