CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-123501

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.31%

24th percentile - higher than 24% of all known CVEs

Summary

Vikunja before 2.7.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows authenticated users to exhaust server memory through concurrent image decodes in avatar and background uploads. Attackers can send several parallel tiny, highly compressible PNGs decoded at up to 50 megapixels each, pushing the API process into memory pressure or an OOM kill.

Risk Assessment

Authenticated users can cause memory exhaustion and service unavailability (DoS) by uploading specially crafted images.

Recommendation

Update Vikunja to version 2.7.1 or later and consider limiting the size and number of concurrent image uploads.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Vikunja before 2.7.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows authenticated users to exhaust server memory through concurrent image decodes in avatar and background uploads. Attackers can send several parallel tiny, highly compressible PNGs decoded at up to 50 megapixels each, pushing the API process into memory pressure or an OOM kill.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS