Incus container environment configuration newline injection_CVE-2026-23953

8.7 / 10

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. In versions 6.20.0 and below, a user with the ability to launch a container with a custom YAML configuration (e.g a member of the ‘incus’ group) can create an environment variable containing newlines, which can be used to add additional configuration items in the container’s lxc.conf due to newline injection. This can allow adding arbitrary lifecycle hooks, ultimately resulting in arbitrary command execution on the host. Exploiting this issue on IncusOS requires a slight modification of the payload to change to a different writable directory for the validation step (e.g /tmp). This can be confirmed with a second container with /tmp mounted from the host (A privileged action for validation only). A fix is planned for versions 6.0.6
and 6.21.0, but they have not been released at the time of publication.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-23953

Source GitHub_M

Published Jan 22, 2026 at 21:39

Affected Product

Vendor lxc

Product incus

Version >= 6.1.0, <= 6.20.0

Affected Versions lxc incus >= 6.1.0, <= 6.20.0
lxc incus <= 6.0.5

CWE Classification

CWE-93

References

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