Upstream information

CVE-2026-33711 at MITRE

Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Incus provides an API to retrieve VM screenshots. That API relies on the use of a temporary file for QEMU to write the screenshot to which is then picked up and sent to the user prior to deletion. As versions prior to 6.23.0 use predictable paths under /tmp for this, an attacker with local access to the system can abuse this mechanism by creating their own symlinks ahead of time. On the vast majority of Linux systems, this will result in a "Permission denied" error when requesting a screenshot. That's because the Linux kernel has a security feature designed to block such attacks, `protected_symlinks`. On the rare systems with this purposefully disabled, it's then possible to trick Incus intro truncating and altering the mode and permissions of arbitrary files on the filesystem, leading to a potential denial of service or possible local privilege escalation. Version 6.23.0 fixes the issue.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
CVSS v4 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub)
Base Score 4.7
Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Attack Requirements Present
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None
Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High
Vulnerable System Availability Impact None
Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None
Subsequent System Integrity Impact None
Subsequent System Availability Impact None
CVSSv4 Version 4.0
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1260937 [NEW]

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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • incus >= 6.23-1.1
  • incus-bash-completion >= 6.23-1.1
  • incus-fish-completion >= 6.23-1.1
  • incus-tools >= 6.23-1.1
  • incus-zsh-completion >= 6.23-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2026-10450

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 govulncheck-vulndb Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 govulncheck-vulndb Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Mar 27 02:00:26 2026
CVE page last modified: Fri Jul 31 14:05:53 2026