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SCA: security update for code.vikunja.io/api (GHSA-xxc3-xpmc-vmvr)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 474079

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - vikunja versions before 2.6.0 contain a resource exhaustion vulnerability in the task-filter endpoint that
 accepts deeply nested filter expressions without recursion depth limits. Authenticated attackers can
 supply thousands of nested parentheses in the filter query parameter to exhaust memory and terminate the
 API process. (CVE-2026-91968)

Solution

Update the code.vikunja.io/api library and its related packages to version 2.6.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxc3-xpmc-vmvr

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 474079

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/10/2026

Updated: 10/10/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.61

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-91968

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 4.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-91968

cwe: CWE-674