CVE•Published 2026-08-21•Modified 2026-09-18•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-62940
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.9
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
14
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 86% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.3.0, when migrating an instance to another cluster member, user-supplied configuration overrides (including security-critical keys like `security.privileged` and `raw.lxc`) are applied without any project restriction enforcement, allowing a restricted project user to escalate to a privileged container and escape to the host. Version 7.3.0 patches the issue.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-21
Modified 2026-09-18
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-62940Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-62940Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-62940Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-62940GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-62940" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-62940 on GitHub.