6.5

CVE-2026-41647: linuxcontainers incus NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-41647DEBIAN-CVE-2026-41647GHSA-fwj8-62r8-8p8m
Published 07-05-2026Last modified 07-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-41647 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linuxcontainers incus. EPSS estimates a 0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.47%
0%100%
Low · +0.08 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Timeline

  1. 07-05-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, a missing error handling could lead an authenticated Incus user to cause a daemon crash through the import of a truncated storage bucket backup file. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.47%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

39%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.08 pp

From 0.39% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.47%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Incus

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • incus< 6.0.4-2+deb13u7 | < 7.0.0-1
Github.com/lxc1 product
  • incusAll versions (No fix recorded)
Github.com/lxc/incus1 product
  • v6All versions (No fix recorded)
Github.com/lxc/incus/v6/cmd1 product
  • incusd≤ 6.23.0
Linuxcontainers1 product
Lxc1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • incusAll versions (No fix recorded)

7 vendors · 7 products

References

8 links