CVE-2026-48749: Lxc Incus

Critical severity, CVSS 9.9. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.2.0, a specially crafted image can be used to read or create/write arbitrary files on the host; possibly leading to arbitrary command execution. Version 7.2.0 fixes the issue.

Affected products

• Lxc Incus: before 7.2.0 (fixed in 7.2.0)

Published 2026-08-21. Last modified 2026-09-18.