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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/c03d682f48aff890eeb3c8b41d38226069722827 Patch
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-2vq4-854f-5c72 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.3 · vikunjaNVD modified 2026-10-26 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:vikunja:vikunja:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 4
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/c03d682f48aff890eeb3c8b41d38226069722827 Patch
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/pull/2583 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/releases/tag/v2.3.0 Release Notes
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-2vq4-854f-5c72 Exploit, Vendor Advisory