What is CVE-2026-41685?

CVE-2026-41685 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linuxcontainers Incus, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2026-05-07.

How severe is CVE-2026-41685?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Linuxcontainers Incus

CVE-2026-41685

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.0.0, uploads of large amount of data by authenticated users can run the Incus server out of disk space, potentially taking down the host system. The impact here is…

EPSS: 0.000 (3.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Linuxcontainers Incus
Lxc Incus — versions < 7.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-98vh-x9cx-9cfp (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/tag/v7.0.0 (Product, Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-41685?: CVE-2026-41685 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linuxcontainers Incus, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2026-05-07.
How severe is CVE-2026-41685?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.