Critical severity9.9NVD Advisory· Published Aug 21, 2026· Updated Aug 21, 2026

CVE-2026-48751

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.2.0, instance snapshots ignore the restricted.containers.lowlevel=block setting; allowing for arbitrary command execution on the Incus server by abusing lowlevel hooks such as raw.lxc and raw.qemu. Version 7.2.0 patches the issue.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
github.com/lxc/incus/v7/cmd/incusdGo	< 7.2.0	7.2.0

Affected products

Lxc/Incusllm-fuzzy
Range: <7.2.0
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/govulncheck-vulndb&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0
Range: < 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-48q5-w887-33wvghsaADVISORY
github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-48q5-w887-33wvnvdWEB

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