{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"important"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2026-23954","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Versions 6.21.0 and below allow a user with the ability to launch a container with a custom image (e.g a member of the 'incus' group) to use directory traversal or symbolic links in the templating functionality to achieve host arbitrary file read, and host arbitrary file write. This ultimately results in arbitrary command execution on the host. When using an image with a metadata.yaml containing templates, both the source and target paths are not checked for symbolic links or directory traversal. This can also be exploited in IncusOS. A fix is planned for versions 6.0.6 and 6.21.0, but they have not been released at the time of publication.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2026-23954","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23954"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 1257146 for CVE-2026-23954","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257146"},{"category":"external","summary":"Advisory link for SUSE-SU-2026:0403-1","url":"https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-February/024084.html"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2026-23954","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2026-03-05T13:55:48Z","generator":{"date":"2026-01-24T00:24:24Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2026-23954","initial_release_date":"2026-01-24T00:24:24Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2026-01-24T00:24:24Z","number":"2","summary":"references added,severity changed from  to important"},{"date":"2026-02-10T00:24:41Z","number":"3","summary":"references added"},{"date":"2026-03-05T13:55:48Z","number":"4","summary":"vulnerabilities added"}],"status":"interim","version":"4"}},"product_tree":{"branches":[{"branches":[{"branches":[{"category":"product_name","name":"openSUSE Tumbleweed","product":{"name":"openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_id":"openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed"}}},{"category":"product_version","name":"incus-6.22-1.1","product":{"name":"incus-6.22-1.1","product_id":"incus-6.22-1.1","product_identification_helper":{"purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/incus@6.22-1.1"}}},{"category":"product_version","name":"incus-bash-completion-6.22-1.1","product":{"name":"incus-bash-completion-6.22-1.1","product_id":"incus-bash-completion-6.22-1.1","product_identification_helper":{"purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/incus-bash-completion@6.22-1.1"}}},{"category":"product_version","name":"incus-fish-completion-6.22-1.1","product":{"name":"incus-fish-completion-6.22-1.1","product_id":"incus-fish-completion-6.22-1.1","product_identification_helper":{"purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/incus-fish-completion@6.22-1.1"}}},{"category":"product_version","name":"incus-tools-6.22-1.1","product":{"name":"incus-tools-6.22-1.1","product_id":"incus-tools-6.22-1.1","product_identification_helper":{"purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/incus-tools@6.22-1.1"}}},{"category":"product_version","name":"incus-zsh-completion-6.22-1.1","product":{"name":"incus-zsh-completion-6.22-1.1","product_id":"incus-zsh-completion-6.22-1.1","product_identification_helper":{"purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/incus-zsh-completion@6.22-1.1"}}}],"category":"product_family","name":"SUSE Linux Enterprise"}],"category":"vendor","name":"SUSE"}],"relationships":[{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"incus-6.22-1.1 as component of openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_id":"openSUSE Tumbleweed:incus-6.22-1.1"},"product_reference":"incus-6.22-1.1","relates_to_product_reference":"openSUSE Tumbleweed"},{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"incus-bash-completion-6.22-1.1 as component of openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_id":"openSUSE Tumbleweed:incus-bash-completion-6.22-1.1"},"product_reference":"incus-bash-completion-6.22-1.1","relates_to_product_reference":"openSUSE Tumbleweed"},{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"incus-fish-completion-6.22-1.1 as component of openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_id":"openSUSE Tumbleweed:incus-fish-completion-6.22-1.1"},"product_reference":"incus-fish-completion-6.22-1.1","relates_to_product_reference":"openSUSE Tumbleweed"},{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"incus-tools-6.22-1.1 as component of openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_id":"openSUSE Tumbleweed:incus-tools-6.22-1.1"},"product_reference":"incus-tools-6.22-1.1","relates_to_product_reference":"openSUSE Tumbleweed"},{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"incus-zsh-completion-6.22-1.1 as component of openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_id":"openSUSE Tumbleweed:incus-zsh-completion-6.22-1.1"},"product_reference":"incus-zsh-completion-6.22-1.1","relates_to_product_reference":"openSUSE Tumbleweed"}]},"vulnerabilities":[{"cve":"CVE-2026-23954","ids":[{"system_name":"SUSE CVE Page","text":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23954"}],"notes":[{"category":"general","text":"Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Versions 6.21.0 and below allow a user with the ability to launch a container with a custom image (e.g a member of the 'incus' group) to use directory traversal or symbolic links in the templating functionality to achieve host arbitrary file read, and host arbitrary file write. This ultimately results in arbitrary command execution on the host. When using an image with a metadata.yaml containing templates, both the source and target paths are not checked for symbolic links or directory traversal. This can also be exploited in IncusOS. 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