CVE-2026-35595 (GCVE-0-2026-35595)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-10 15:58 – Updated: 2026-04-10 18:16
VLAI?
Title
Vikunja Affected by Privilege Escalation via Project Reparenting
Summary
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.
Severity ?
8.3 (High)
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
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Impacted products
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| go-vikunja | vikunja |
Affected:
< 2.3.0
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Nomenclature
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
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