Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, user provided image and backup tarballs would be unpacked and YAML files parsed without any size restrictions. This was making it easy for an authenticated user to provide a crafted image or backup tarball that when parsed by Incus would lead to a very large YAML document being loaded into memory, potentially causing the entire server to run out of memory. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.

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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-6244-1 incus security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-6247-1 lxd security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-67wx-r9xr-x75x Incus has Unbounded YAML Metadata Decode via Parsing
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Thu, 07 May 2026 13:45:00 +0000

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Description Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, user provided image and backup tarballs would be unpacked and YAML files parsed without any size restrictions. This was making it easy for an authenticated user to provide a crafted image or backup tarball that when parsed by Incus would lead to a very large YAML document being loaded into memory, potentially causing the entire server to run out of memory. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.
Title Incus: Unbounded YAML Metadata Decode via Parsing
Weaknesses CWE-770
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-07T13:05:42.479Z

Reserved: 2026-04-21T23:58:43.802Z

Link: CVE-2026-41648

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-07T14:16:03.200

Modified: 2026-05-07T14:16:03.200

Link: CVE-2026-41648

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