CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-123523

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 by requesting avatars at many distinct sizes. Attackers can upload a noisy avatar and fetch it at each size up to 1024, caching roughly a gigabyte per account without eviction and causing the API process to be OOM-killed.

Risk Assessment

Server memory exhaustion and API process crash can lead to service unavailability for all users.

Recommendation

Update Vikunja to version 2.7.1 or later to limit avatar caching and prevent memory exhaustion.

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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 by requesting avatars at many distinct sizes. Attackers can upload a noisy avatar and fetch it at each size up to 1024, caching roughly a gigabyte per account without eviction and causing the API process to be OOM-killed.

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