CVE-2026-48751: Incus has a restricted project bypass leading to arbitrary command execution

June 26, 2026

Instance snapshots ignore the restricted.containers.lowlevel=block setting; allowing for arbitrary command execution on the Incus server by abusing lowlevel hooks such as raw.lxc and raw.qemu.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-48q5-w887-33wv
github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-48q5-w887-33wv
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48751

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