Vikunja from 0.18.0 before 2.7.1 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows team owners to gain admin or ownership of read-only shared projects by deleting accounts. Attackers can create a bot, add it to their team, and delete it through the bots endpoint, triggering ensureProjectAdminUser to promote read-only shares and lock out the real owner.
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Go-vikunja
Go-vikunja vikunja
Vendors & Products Go-vikunja
Go-vikunja vikunja

Sun, 08 Nov 2026 01:45:00 +0000

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Description Vikunja from 0.18.0 before 2.7.1 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows team owners to gain admin or ownership of read-only shared projects by deleting accounts. Attackers can create a bot, add it to their team, and delete it through the bots endpoint, triggering ensureProjectAdminUser to promote read-only shares and lock out the real owner.
Title Vikunja 0.18.0 before 2.7.1 Privilege Escalation via Account Deletion
First Time appeared Vikunja
Vikunja vikunja
Weaknesses CWE-269
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:vikunja:vikunja:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Vikunja
Vikunja vikunja
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published: 2026-11-08T01:37:31.078Z

Updated: 2026-11-08T01:37:31.078Z

Reserved: 2026-11-06T00:47:14.649Z

Link: CVE-2026-123520

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-11-08T02:16:41.247

Modified: 2026-11-08T02:16:41.380

Link: CVE-2026-123520

cve-icon Redhat

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