CVE-2026-35595

high

Description

Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to 2.3.0, the CanUpdate check at pkg/models/project_permissions.go:139-148 only requires CanWrite on the new parent project when changing parent_project_id. However, Vikunja's permission model uses a recursive CTE that walks up the project hierarchy to compute permissions. Moving a project under a different parent changes the permission inheritance chain. When a user has inherited Write access (from a parent project share) and reparents the child project under their own project tree, the CTE resolves their ownership of the new parent as Admin (permission level 2) on the moved project. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.0.

References

https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-2vq4-854f-5c72

https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/releases/tag/v2.3.0

https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/pull/2583

https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/c03d682f48aff890eeb3c8b41d38226069722827

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-10

Updated: 2026-04-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00028