CVE-2026-48756

Incus: CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup nil-pointer dereference on volume_snapshots[*].expires_at (sibling-field variant of GHSA-r7w7)

LOW
2.1
CVSS Score
Published: August 21, 2026 at 02:10 PM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 07:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorIncus

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Severity
LOW2.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, `(*backend).CreateCustomVolumeFromBackup` in `internal/server/storage/backend.go` contains an unguarded `*time.Time` dereference on the `ExpiresAt` field of every volume-snapshot entry in an imported custom-volume backup. An authenticated user with `can_create_storage_volumes` permission on any project can crash the `incusd` daemon by uploading a backup tarball whose `volume_snapshots[*].expires_at` field is absent. This is a sibling-field variant of GHSA-r7w7-mmxr-47r9 (CVE-2026-40197). Commit `985a1dedf9f3e7ba729c93b654905ed510de25c2` added `if s == nil` at the top of the loop body, but did not guard the adjacent `*snapshot.ExpiresAt` deref 19 lines later. Every other consumer of `Config.VolumeSnapshots[i].ExpiresAt` in this same file already gates the deref with a nil-check — the asymmetric guard is the bug. Version 7.1.0 contains an updated patch.

Affected

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

v < 7.1.0
Affected range stops below 7.1.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

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CVSS

2.1LOWGitHub_M
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Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-476

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