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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-54766 EUVD-2026-67830GHSA-f27p-pw2p-9pr4GO-2026-6311

Vikunja: Project duplication bypasses write-permission check on the target parent project

Published Aug 28, 2026 · Updated Aug 28, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. From 0.21.0 until 2.4.0, the project duplication operation in pkg/models/project_duplicate.go allows an authenticated user who can read a source project to place its duplicate beneath an arbitrary target parent project. ProjectDuplicate.CanCreate calls parent.CanCreate on an unhydrated Project containing only the body supplied parent_project_id instead of calling parent.CanWrite, so the target parent write-permission check is skipped. The ordinary project creation path enforces that permission, but PUT /api/v1/projects/{project}/duplicate does not, allowing attacker-owned content to be injected into another user or team project hierarchy. This issue is fixed in version 2.4.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
go-vikunja vikunja >= 0.21.0, < 2.4.0 —

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
SLES for SAP 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260902T191204-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23712-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23692-1
SLES 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260902T191204-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23712-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23692-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260902T191204-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21812-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go code.vikunja.io/api >= 0.21.0, < 2.4.0 2.4.0 GHSA-f27p-pw2p-9pr4
Go code.vikunja.io/api >= 0.21.0 — GO-2026-6311

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