# CVE-2026-48754: Incus: Nil-pointer dereference in createDependentVolumesFromBackup on disk.{Volume,VolumeSnapshots,Pool}

- Also known as: GHSA-4XG6-52MH-FPW8, GO-2026-5800
- Severity: CVSS 2.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.1.0
- Published: 2026-08-21 · Updated: 2026-08-26

## Affected

- lxc incus: fixed in 7.1.0
- github.com/lxc/incus/v7/cmd/incusd (Go): fixed in 7.1.0
- github.com/lxc/incus (Go): all versions
- github.com/lxc/incus/v6 (Go): all versions
- github.com/lxc/incus/v7 (Go): fixed in 7.1.0

## Description

Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.1.0, `(*backend).createDependentVolumesFromBackup` in `internal/server/storage/backend.go` contains a cluster of unguarded pointer derefs on every dependent-volume entry's `VolumeSnapshots[i]`, `Volume`, and `Pool` sub-fields. An authenticated user with `can_create_instances` permission on any project can crash the `incusd` daemon by uploading an instance backup tarball whose `dependent_volumes[*]` block contains a nil snapshot pointer (or omits `volume:` / `pool:`). This is a sibling-field variant of the 2026-05-04 batch fix `d768f81c0a1d985f35ae56219519822b080bf5e3` ("Properly check dependent volumes on import"). That commit added `if disk == nil` at the top of the outer loop, but did not guard the four sub-pointer fields the loop body dereferences naked. Version 7.1.0 contains an updated patch.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on lxc incus, github.com/lxc/incus/v7/cmd/incusd, github.com/lxc/incus or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (7.1.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-4xg6-52mh-fpw8

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