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High · 8.3 CVE-2026-35595 EUVD-2026-21418GHSA-2vq4-854f-5c72GO-2026-4952

Vikunja Affected by Privilege Escalation via Project Reparenting

Published Apr 10, 2026 · Updated Apr 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
go-vikunja vikunja < 2.3.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go code.vikunja.io/api < 2.3.0 2.3.0 GHSA-2vq4-854f-5c72
Go code.vikunja.io/api all versions — GO-2026-4952

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