CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-35597

MediumCVSS 5.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

22th 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.

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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.

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