What is CVE-2026-41647?

CVE-2026-41647 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linuxcontainers Incus, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-05-07.

How severe is CVE-2026-41647?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in Linuxcontainers Incus

CVE-2026-41647

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, a missing error handling could lead an authenticated Incus user to cause a daemon crash through the import of a truncated storage bucket backup file. This issue has been patched in version 7.0.0.

Published 2026-05-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (38.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 38th percentile — 38.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Linuxcontainers Incus
Lxc Incus — versions < 7.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-fwj8-62r8-8p8m (Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
github.com/lxc/incus/releases/tag/v7.0.0 (Product, Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-41647?: CVE-2026-41647 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linuxcontainers Incus, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-05-07.
How severe is CVE-2026-41647?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.