CVE-2026-35597
MediumCVSS 5.9Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs
Summary
Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to 2.3.0, the TOTP failed-attempt lockout mechanism was non-functional due to a database transaction handling bug: after a failed TOTP validation, the login handler calls HandleFailedTOTPAuth and then unconditionally rolls back, undoing the StatusAccountLocked write and allowing unlimited brute-force attempts against TOTP codes; this is fixed in 2.3.0.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can perform unlimited brute-force attempts against TOTP codes, potentially bypassing the second authentication factor. This increases the risk of account takeover for TOTP-protected accounts.
Recommendation
Update Vikunja to version 2.3.0 or later. Until updated, monitor failed TOTP login attempts and consider additional infrastructure-level rate limiting.
Other vulnerabilities in Vikunja
See all- CVE-2026-56765Critical
A vulnerability in Vikunja before version 2.2.1 allows unauthorized access to share hashes and downloading/deleting all file attachments across the instance. An authorization flaw in the LinkSharing.ReadAll and GetTaskAttachment endpoints enables privilege escalation to admin-level shares.
- CVE-2026-115507Low
Vikunja 2.2.0 before 2.7.1 contains an HTML injection vulnerability in CreateConversationalHeader in pkg/notifications/mail.go that interpolates display names and task and project titles raw into email anchors. Authenticated users can craft titles or display names that close the anchor and inject phishing links into task-comment and task-mention notification emails sent to project members.
- CVE-2026-111922Medium
Vikunja from 2.2.0 before 2.7.0 contains a permissive CORS configuration that trusts every localhost and 127.0.0.1 port with credentials, even when service.publicurl is set. Attackers controlling a page on any localhost port can send a credentialed request to the token refresh endpoint and read the returned bearer JWT to take over the logged-in user's account.
- CVE-2026-111921Medium
Vikunja 0.13.0 before 2.7.0 contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability that allows project members with Write permission to delete admin-tier link shares because the delete permission check reads an unloaded share object. Attackers can send DELETE requests to the v1 or v2 projects shares endpoints with sequential share IDs to revoke admin links and invalidate existing share sessions.
- CVE-2026-111920Medium
Vikunja 2.6.0 contains a broken access control flaw in getProjectAccessForUser (pkg/models/project_access.go), which resolves a user's effective project permission as the maximum over the project tree, silently overriding explicit lower-permission shares on sub-projects. A collaborator with write access on a parent project but read-only access to a child project can modify the child project's tasks and content.
- CVE-2026-111919Medium
Vikunja 0.22.0 before 2.7.0 contains an improper access revocation vulnerability that allows removed collaborators to keep receiving project data through webhooks they created. Former collaborators keep receiving task titles and descriptions through their webhook, including content created after their access was revoked.
- CVE-2026-111918Medium
Vikunja from 1.0.0-rc0 before 2.7.0 contains an improper authorization vulnerability in RecalculateTaskPositions that allows authenticated users with zero accessible projects to write task_positions rows for all tasks instance-wide. Attackers can delete their Inbox after repointing default_project_id, then create empty-filter saved filters to persist cross-tenant references and amplify writes for denial of service.
- CVE-2026-111917Medium
Vikunja 2.3.0 before 2.7.0 contains an improper session validation vulnerability that allows attackers to keep WebSocket access after revocation because handleAuth never checks the JWT sid claim against the sessions table. Attackers holding a stolen access token can open or maintain connections to /api/v2/ws after session deletion or TOTP enrollment, continuing to receive the victim's notification.created pushes, including comment, task and project content.
- CVE-2026-62376High
Vikunja versions prior to 2.4.0 store password-reset, email-confirmation, and account-deletion tokens in the user_tokens table in plaintext. An attacker with read access to the database can immediately use pending tokens to take over user accounts without knowing passwords. Version 2.4.0 fixes the issue.
- CVE-2026-62367High
Vikunja versions 1.0.0 through 2.3.0, when an administrator enables the per-provider emailfallback option on an OpenID Connect provider, links an SSO login to a pre-existing local account using only the email claim from the IdP, without checking email_verified or requiring the account password. An attacker with a token carrying a victim's email can log in as that victim without consent. Version 2.4.0 fixes the issue.
Original NVD description (English source)
Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to 2.3.0, the TOTP failed-attempt lockout mechanism is non-functional due to a database transaction handling bug. When a TOTP validation fails, the login handler in pkg/routes/api/v1/login.go calls HandleFailedTOTPAuth and then unconditionally rolls back. HandleFailedTOTPAuth in pkg/user/totp.go uses an in-memory counter (key-value store) to track failed attempts. When the counter reaches 10, it calls user.SetStatus(s, StatusAccountLocked) on the same database session s. Because the login handler always rolls back after a TOTP failure, the StatusAccountLocked write is undone. The in-memory counter correctly increments past 10, so the lockout code executes on every subsequent attempt, but the database write is rolled back every time. This allows unlimited brute-force attempts against TOTP codes. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.0.
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