CVE-2026-40251CWE-129

Incus out-of-bounds panic in snapshot metadata handling allows denial of service

High · published May 6, 2026

CVSS v4.0
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. In versions before 7.0.0, missing validation logic in the storage volume import logic allows an authenticated user with access to the storage volume feature to cause the Incus daemon to crash. The backup restore subsystem contains an out-of-bounds panic vulnerability caused by an invalid bounds check when indexing snapshot metadata arrays, and the same flawed pattern also appears in the migration path. When iterating through physical snapshots provided in a backup archive, the loop uses the index to look up corresponding metadata in the parsed `Config.Snapshots` and `Config.VolumeSnapshots` slices. The guard condition `len(slice) >= i-1` is incorrect because it can still evaluate to true when the subsequent slice[i] access is out of bounds.

An attacker can submit a backup archive that contains physical snapshot directories while supplying a tampered `index.yaml` with an empty or truncated snapshot metadata array, causing the daemon to index beyond the end of the metadata slice and crash. Repeated use of this issue can be used to keep Incus offline, causing a denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 7.0.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00471 · 39.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-129 · Improper Validation of Array Index
Published
2026-05-06T20:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 MAY 20:40Z
    Incus out-of-bounds panic in snapshot metadata handling allows denial of service
    cvelistv5