Vikunja: Plaintext storage of password-reset/email-confirm tokens in database enables account takeover on DB read access
Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Versions prior to 2.4.0 store password-reset, email-confirmation, and account-deletion tokens in the `user_tokens` table in plaintext. If an attacker gains read access to the database through a backup leak, misconfigured storage, or SQL-level exposure, they can immediately use pending tokens to take over user accounts without knowing passwords. Version 2.4.0 fixes the issue.
- Published
- Oct 9, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 9, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 11th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-312
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Action score
32
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 32 / 40 · 8.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
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- CNA · GitHub_M
- 8.1
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We use this product, ask for helpAffected systems
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
go-vikunja vikunja
- < 2.4.0affected
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | code.vikunja.io/api | before 2.4.0 | 2.4.0 |
Same product
go-vikunja: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-68582Vikunja 0.24.0 Broken Object Level Authorization via Link-Share Token37Monitor
- CVE-2026-91985Vikunja before 2.6.0 Privilege Escalation via Link Share Hash34Monitor
- CVE-2026-91973Vikunja before 2.6.0 Authentication Bypass via CalDAV BasicAuth34Monitor
- CVE-2026-91972Vikunja before 2.6.0 Authentication Bypass via Unthrottled API34Monitor
- CVE-2026-68581Vikunja 0.22.0 through 2.3.0 Authentication Bypass via Principal ID Collision34Monitor
- CVE-2026-57458Vikunja: Scoped API token can mint unrestricted OAuth session credentials32Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Go:code.vikunja.io/api | 2.4.0 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
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- Published
- Fix recordedsame day
- TodayOct 12, 2026+2 d
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Credits
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-312 · Cleartext Storage of Sensitive InformationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
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Attack patterns (CAPEC)
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
- Exploit maturity— → none
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References
- github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/00fd2c6155c01faae99be4226b931d8091fd6323
- github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/3a0ea15d8c18ff960bc98ae39950fa7a14b0af7d
- github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/e31ea2de5040fa63bc97cf4df63bafed3bd9ad85
- github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/releases/tag/v2.4.0
- github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-r6w9-259g-gwrv
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.