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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: UBUNTU-CVE-2026-62313

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.3.0, project-level enforcement of `restricted.containers.privilege=isolated` can be trivially bypassed, allowing a user to create a non-isolated (shared host idmap) container in a project that is configured to forbid them. The restriction only rejects an explicitly set `security.idmap.isolated=false` (or empty) and fails to enforce anything when the key is omitted entirely. Because an unset `security.idmap.isolated` defaults to `false` (non-isolation), a user simply leaves the key out and obtains exactly the container state the restriction is meant to forbid. This defeats the tenant-isolation guarantee the restriction exists to provide. Containers in the project share the host uid/gid map instead of receiving unique, non-overlapping ranges, weakening the isolation boundary between co-tenant containers and the host. Version 7.3.0 patches the issue.

Products
incus
Affected versions
0.4-1ubuntu1, 0.5.1-1, 0.5.1-3, 0.6-1, 6.0.0-1, 6.0.0-1ubuntu0.1, 6.0.0-1ubuntu0.2, 6.0.0-1ubuntu0.2+esm1, 6.0.0-1ubuntu0.3, 6.0.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm1, 6.0.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm2, 6.0.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm3, 6.0.4-2, 6.0.5-8, 6.0.5-8ubuntu0.26.04.1~esm1, 7.0.1-5
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2026-62313
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 03:11 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-62313

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Aug 2026, 15:16 UTC

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.3.0, project-level enforcement of `restricted.containers.privilege=isolated` can be trivially bypassed, allowing a user to create a non-isolated (shared host idmap) container in a project that is configured to forbid them. The restriction only rejects an explicitly set `security.idmap.isolated=false` (or empty) and fails to enforce anything when the key is omitted entirely. Because an unset `security.idmap.isolated` defaults to `false` (non-isolation), a user simply leaves the key out and obtains exactly the container state the restriction is meant to forbid. This defeats the tenant-isolation guarantee the restriction exists to provide. Containers in the project share the host uid/gid map instead of receiving unique, non-overlapping ranges, weakening the isolation boundary between co-tenant containers and the host. Version 7.3.0 patches the issue.

osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2026-62313

incus

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incus

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incus

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Complete source record
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