CVE-2026-35527

5.0 MEDIUM
Published: May 05, 2026 Modified: May 07, 2026
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Description

Incus is an open source container and virtual machine manager. In versions prior to 7.0.0, the image import flow issues an outbound HEAD request to a user-supplied URL before validating the request against project restrictions such as restricted.images.servers. The imgPostURLInfo function constructs and sends a HEAD request directly from the attacker-supplied source URL to resolve image metadata, and this network interaction occurs before the flow reaches the point where the import would be rejected by policy. Although the actual image download is blocked by the project restriction, an authenticated user can coerce the daemon into making blind HEAD requests to arbitrary destinations. These requests include server metadata in custom headers (Incus-Server-Architectures, Incus-Server-Version), which discloses information about the host environment to the attacker-controlled endpoint. This blind SSRF primitive can be used to probe internal services, unroutable address space, or cloud metadata endpoints reachable from the host. This vulnerability pattern is similar to CVE-2026-24767. This issue has been fixed in version 7.0.0.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/lxc/incus/blob/v6.22.0/cmd/incusd/images.go
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Product
https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-8gw4-p4wq-4hcv
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Exploit Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/lxc/incus/security/advisories/GHSA-8gw4-p4wq-4hcv
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Exploit Vendor Advisory

3 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
5.0 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.3%
19th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

linuxcontainers