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CVE-2026-48756: Incus: CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup nil-pointer dereference on volume_snapshots[*].expires_at (sibling-field variant of GHSA-r7w7)

June 26, 2026

(*backend).CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup in internal/server/storage/backend.go contains an unguarded *time.Time dereference on the ExpiresAt field of every volume-snapshot entry in an imported custom-volume backup. An authenticated user with can_create_storage_volumes permission on any project can crash the incusd daemon by uploading a backup tarball whose volume_snapshots[*].expires_at field is absent.

This is a sibling-field variant of GHSA-r7w7-mmxr-47r9 (CVE-2026-40197). Commit 985a1dedf9f3e7ba729c93b654905ed510de25c2 added if s == nil at the top of the loop body, but did not guard the adjacent *snapshot.ExpiresAt deref 19 lines later. Every other consumer of Config.VolumeSnapshots[i].ExpiresAt in this same file already gates the deref with a nil-check — the asymmetric guard is the bug.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-xhqx-mgh3-3h7q
  • github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-xhqx-mgh3-3h7q
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48756

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Affected versions

All versions before 7.1.0

Fixed versions

  • 7.1.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.1.0 or above.

Impact 4.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Source file

go/github.com/lxc/incus/v7/cmd/incusd/CVE-2026-48756.yml

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