CVE-2026-35595CWE-269

Vikunja Affected by Privilege Escalation via Project Reparenting

High · published April 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00463 · 39.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2026-04-10T15:58Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 APR 15:58Z
    Vikunja Affected by Privilege Escalation via Project Reparenting
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