Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-91968

go-vikunja vikunja

vikunja before 2.6.0 Denial of Service via unbounded filter recursion

CVSS 4.0
7.1High

Official description

vikunja versions before 2.6.0 contain a resource exhaustion vulnerability in the task-filter endpoint that accepts deeply nested filter expressions without recursion depth limits. Authenticated attackers can supply thousands of nested parentheses in the filter query parameter to exhaust memory and terminate the API process.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.1High 4.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (VulnCheck) CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
6.5Medium 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (VulnCheck) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
go-vikunja vikunja 2.5.0 ≤ v < 2.6.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

2
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Details

Published
2026-09-15
Last updated
2026-09-15
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
VulnCheck

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.43%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
38%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
Proof of concept
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-674
    Uncontrolled Recursion