MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-123520 (CVSS 7.1)

NVD · officialPublished Nov 8, 2026Risk 23/100EPSS 0.3%

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.

Technical details

CVSS

7.1

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:LowUI:None

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