CVE-2026-115377
Received Received - Intake

Arbitrary File Write in Incus via Malicious Migration Symlinks

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-115377, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-10-22

Last updated on: 2026-10-22

Assigner: VulnCheck

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.

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Published
2026-10-22
Last Modified
2026-10-22
Generated
2026-10-23
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
NVD

Affected Vendors & Products

Showing 3 associated CPEs
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lxc incus 0
lxc incus 6.1.0
lxc incus 7.1.0

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Exploitability

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CWE ID Description
CWE-59 The product attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource.

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