CVE-2025-64507

Incus vulnerable to local privilege escalation through custom storage volumes

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: November 10, 2025 at 09:56 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:54 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsIncusIncus

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. An issue in versions prior to 6.0.6 and 6.19.0 affects any Incus user in an environment where an unprivileged user may have root access to a container with an attached custom storage volume that has the `security.shifted` property set to `true` as well as access to the host as an unprivileged user. The most common case for this would be systems using `incus-user` with the less privileged `incus` group to provide unprivileged users with an isolated restricted access to Incus. Such users may be able to create a custom storage volume with the necessary property (depending on kernel and filesystem support) and can then write a setuid binary from within the container which can be executed as an unprivileged user on the host to gain root privileges. A patch for this issue is expected in versions 6.0.6 and 6.19.0. As a workaround, permissions can be manually restricted until a patched version of Incus is deployed.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 6.0.66.1.0 ≤ v < 6.19.0
v < 6.0.6v < 6.19.0
Affected range stops below 6.0.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 6.19.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (3)

x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatchVendor Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-56mx-8g9f-5crf
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingPatch
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/lxc/incus/issues/2641
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingPatch
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/lxc/incus/pull/2642

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-269NVD-CWE-noinfo

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