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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 26, 2026· Updated Mar 27, 2026

Incus vulnerable to denial of source through crafted bucket backup file

CVE-2026-33743

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 6.23.0, a specially crafted storage bucket backup can be used by an user with access to Incus' storage bucket feature to crash the Incus daemon. Repeated use of this attack can be used to keep the server offline causing a denial of service of the control plane API. This does not impact any running workload, existing containers and virtual machines will keep operating. Version 6.23.0 fixes the issue.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/lxc/incus/v6Go
< 6.23.06.23.0
github.com/lxc/incusGo
<= 0.7.0

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