# CVE-2026-33743: Incus vulnerable to denial of source through crafted bucket backup file

- Also known as: GO-2026-4886, GHSA-VG76-XMHG-J5X3
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.23.0
- Published: 2026-03-26 · Updated: 2026-03-27

## Affected

- lxc incus: fixed in 6.23.0
- github.com/lxc/incus (Go): all versions
- github.com/lxc/incus/v6 (Go): fixed in 6.23.0
- github.com/lxc/incus (Go): through 0.7.0

## Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 6.23.0, a specially crafted storage bucket backup can be used by an user with access to Incus' storage bucket feature to crash the Incus daemon. Repeated use of this attack can be used to keep the server offline causing a denial of service of the control plane API. This does not impact any running workload, existing containers and virtual machines will keep operating. Version 6.23.0 fixes the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on lxc incus, github.com/lxc/incus, github.com/lxc/incus/v6, upgrade to a fixed version (6.23.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-vg76-xmhg-j5x3

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