CVE-2026-48756

Low

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, `(*backend).CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup` in `internal/server/storage/backend.go` contains an unguarded `*time.Time` dereference on the `ExpiresAt` field of every volume-snapshot entry in an imported custom-volume backup. An authenticated user with `can_create_storage_volumes` permission on any project can crash the `incusd` daemon by uploading a backup tarball whose `volume_snapshots[*].expires_at` field is absent. This is a sibling-field variant of GHSA-r7w7-mmxr-47r9 (CVE-2026-40197). Commit `985a1dedf9f3e7ba729c93b654905ed510de25c2` added `if s == nil` at the top of the loop body, but did not guard the adjacent `*snapshot.ExpiresAt` deref 19 lines later. Every other consumer of `Config.VolumeSnapshots[i].ExpiresAt` in this same file already gates the deref with a nil-check — the asymmetric guard is the bug. Version 7.1.0 contains an updated patch.

SeverityLow
CVSS2.1
Exploit probability—
ProductGithub.com/lxc/incus/v7/cmd/incusd
PublishedAug 21, 2026
First seenAug 21, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • github.com/lxc/incus/v7/cmd/incusd7.1.0 or later
  • github.com/lxc/incus/v77.1.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
github.com/lxc/incus/v7/cmd/incusdGov < 7.1.07.1.0
github.com/lxc/incusGoNo range specified—
github.com/lxc/incus/v6GoNo range specified—
github.com/lxc/incus/v7Gov < 7.1.07.1.0

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