What is CVE-2026-41684?

CVE-2026-41684 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-2026-41684?

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

NULL pointer dereference in Linuxcontainers Incus

CVE-2026-41684

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, backup.GetInfo() trusts the inline backup/index.yaml config when present and only falls back to parsing the legacy backup/container/backup.yaml file if result…

EPSS: 0.000 (6.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Linuxcontainers Incus
Lxc Incus — versions < 7.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-x5r6-jr56-89pv (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/tag/v7.0.0 (Product, Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-41684?: CVE-2026-41684 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-2026-41684?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.