CVE-2026-35595

HIGH

Vikunja Affected by Privilege Escalation via Project Reparenting

Title source: cna

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.3
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (3)
code.vikunja.io/api 0 - 2.3.0Go
go-vikunja/vikunja < 2.3.0
vikunja/vikunja < 2.3.0
Published Apr 10, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 10, 2026