Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-33313

Access Control in Vikunja ≤ 2.2.0

Published
24 March 2026
Modified
24 March 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v4 5.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0025 17th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-33313 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Vikunja Vikunja. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data from Information Repositories (T1213); ranked at the 17th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to version 2.2.0, an authenticated user can read any task comment by ID, regardless of whether they have access to the task the comment belongs to, by substituting the task ID…

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in the API URL with a task they do have access to. Version 2.2.0 fixes the issue.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1213 Data from Information Repositories Collection
Adversaries may leverage information repositories to mine valuable information.
Why these techniques?

IDOR authz bypass enables unauthorized reads from task data (info repository).

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2026-33678Same product: Vikunja Vikunja
CVE-2026-35596Same product: Vikunja Vikunja
CVE-2026-33700Same product: Vikunja Vikunja
CVE-2026-33676Same product: Vikunja Vikunja
CVE-2026-35598Same product: Vikunja Vikunja
CVE-2026-33334Same product: Vikunja Vikunja
CVE-2026-35601Same product: Vikunja Vikunja
CVE-2026-27116Same product: Vikunja Vikunja
CVE-2026-33679Same product: Vikunja Vikunja
CVE-2026-33316Same product: Vikunja Vikunja

Affected Assets

vikunja
vikunja
≤ 2.2.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly enforces authorization checks so that a user cannot retrieve task comments belonging to tasks they lack permission for.

prevent

Enforces information-flow rules that block access to comment objects whose owning task is outside the caller's authorized scope.

prevent

Limits each account to the minimum set of tasks and comments required, reducing the impact surface of any missing per-object authorization check.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-05 full match
prevents

Enforcing authorization policy and least privilege directly blocks user-controlled key tampering that bypasses access checks.

PR.IR-01 mostly match
prevents

Logical access controls prevent unauthorized data access that results from missing authorization checks on object references.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Security testing can detect missing authorization checks but does not prevent the weakness in production.

prevents

Information access restriction explicitly enforces that users may only retrieve data they are authorized to see, directly addressing user-controlled key bypass.

prevents

Access control policy directly requires enforcement of authorization rules that prevent unauthorized access via manipulated keys.

prevents

Managing access rights includes ensuring users can only access their own records and not bypass authorization by altering identifiers.

mitigates

Privileged access rights control restricts what data each user may access, mitigating direct object reference attacks.

prevents

Secure development lifecycle includes authorization design but does not itself implement runtime access checks.

References