Incus: Unbounded binary import disk exhaustion
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, uploads of large amount of data by authenticated users can run the Incus server out of disk space, potentially taking down the host system. The impact here is limited for anyone using storage.images_volume and storage.backups_volume as those users will have large uploads be stored on those volumes rather than directly on the host filesystem. This is the default behavior on IncusOS. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-41685
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 23:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Incus: Unbounded binary import disk exhaustion
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 7 May 2026, 13:09 UTC
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, uploads of large amount of data by authenticated users can run the Incus server out of disk space, potentially taking down the host system. The impact here is limited for anyone using storage.images_volume and storage.backups_volume as those users will have large uploads be stored on those volumes rather than directly on the host filesystem. This is the default behavior on IncusOS. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.
osv:CVE-2026-41685
Complete source record
{
"id": "badaac6e04892e121e9e54d162eb4d0e3bd01b2989243c0e8f3e60a1eb7c82f8",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-41685",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "Incus: Unbounded binary import disk exhaustion",
"summary": "Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, uploads of large amount of data by authenticated users can run the Incus server out of disk space, potentially taking down the host system. The impact here is limited for anyone using storage.images_volume and storage.backups_volume as those users will have large uploads be stored on those volumes rather than directly on the host filesystem. This is the default behavior on IncusOS. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-41685",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2026-41685",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-41685",
"GHSA-98vh-x9cx-9cfp",
"GO-2026-5280"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/lxc/incus",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "6255b3956027aaa6c2092ed42869f58e8d1942f5"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "7.0.0"
}
],
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"strategy": "StringRangeExpression"
},
{
"range": [
{
"fixed": "6255b3956027aaa6c2092ed42869f58e8d1942f5"
}
],
"source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
"original_tag": "v7.0.0"
},
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:linuxcontainers:incus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "7.0.0"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"v6.23.0",
"v6.22.0",
"v6.21.0",
"v6.20.0",
"v6.19.1",
"v6.19.0",
"v6.18.0",
"v6.17.0",
"v6.16.0",
"v6.14.0",
"v6.15.0",
"v6.13.0",
"v6.12.0",
"v6.11.0",
"v6.10.1",
"v6.10.0",
"v6.9.0",
"v6.8.0",
"v6.7.0",
"v6.6.0",
"v6.5.0",
"v6.4.0",
"v6.3.0",
"v6.2.0",
"v6.0.0",
"v6.1.0",
"v0.7.0",
"v0.6.0",
"v0.5.1",
"v0.5.0",
"v0.4.0",
"v0.3.0",
"v0.2.0",
"v0.1.0"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-41685.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:24.356798821Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/tag/v7.0.0",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/41xxx/CVE-2026-41685.json",
"https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-98vh-x9cx-9cfp",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41685"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-770"
],
"cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/41xxx/CVE-2026-41685.json"
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2026-41685",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 490953,
"published_at": "2026-05-07T13:09:34.982+00:00"
}