CVE-2026-115378

Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.

Description

Incus before 6.0.7, 6.1.0 before 7.0.2, and 7.1.0 before 7.5.0 contains an arbitrary file write vulnerability in sftpRecursivePullFile that allows a malicious incus-agent to escape the target directory during incus file pull -r. Attackers with root in a virtual machine can return duplicate entries reported first as symlinks then as files or directories, writing attacker-controlled files such as /etc/shadow on the operator's host.

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS score

6.9 (v4.0)

Vulnerability status

Deferred

Source identifier

[email protected]

Published

2026-10-22 19:17:44.600000

Last modified

2026-10-23 17:06:36.030000

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  "published": "2026-10-22T19:17:44.600",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-23T17:06:36.030",
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