Bug 2524268

Summary: CVE-2026-48750 incus: Incus has an arbitrary file write on host via `exec-output` symlink in crafted image [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thibault Guittet <tguittet>
Component: incusAssignee: Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
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Description Thibault Guittet 2026-08-26 07:58:05 UTC 
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Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.2.0, the `record-output` parameter of the `/instances/$name/exec` endpoint stores the output of the command in the `exec-output` directory of the instance. If `exec-output` is a symlink, file named `exec_UUID.stdout` and `exec_UUID.stderr` can be written to an arbitrary location where the `.stdout` file will contain arbitrary content. This behavior can be abused for arbitrary command execution. Version 7.2.0 contains a patch.