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.
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GHSA-2vq4-854f-5c72 | Vikunja vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Project Reparenting |
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Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Vikunja Affected by Privilege Escalation via Project Reparenting | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-269 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-10T18:16:18.230Z
Reserved: 2026-04-03T21:25:12.161Z
Link: CVE-2026-35595
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-10T17:17:02.910
Modified: 2026-04-10T17:17:02.910
Link: CVE-2026-35595
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