Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-35598

Access Control in Vikunja ≤ 2.3.0

Public PoCAccess Control
Published
10 April 2026
Modified
17 April 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 12th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-35598 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability in Vikunja Vikunja. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data from Information Repositories (T1213); ranked at the 12th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

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 2.3.0, the CalDAV GetResource and GetResourcesByList methods fetch tasks by UID from the database without verifying that the authenticated user has access to the task's project. Any authenticated CalDAV user…

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who knows (or guesses) a task UID can read the full task data from any project on the instance. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.0.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1213 Data from Information Repositories Collection
Adversaries may leverage information repositories to mine valuable information.
T1213.006 Databases Collection
Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information.
Why these techniques?

Missing authorization (CWE-862) in CalDAV task fetch allows authenticated users to read arbitrary task data from any project/DB, directly enabling T1213 Data from Information Repositories (esp. Databases sub-technique).

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

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2025-32045Shared CWE-862
CVE-2025-63293Shared CWE-862
CVE-2024-7045Shared CWE-862
CVE-2025-62247Shared CWE-862
CVE-2024-13303Shared CWE-862
CVE-2025-62712Shared CWE-862
CVE-2025-31736Shared CWE-862
CVE-2024-9109Shared CWE-862
CVE-2023-37887Shared CWE-862
CVE-2025-47688Shared CWE-862

Affected Assets

vikunja
vikunja
≤ 2.3.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

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

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 5 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly enforces authorization checks on task UIDs before CalDAV GetResource/GetResourcesByList return project data.

prevent

Limits each authenticated user to the minimal set of projects, reducing the impact of missing per-UID authorization.

prevent

Enforces information-flow rules that would block cross-project task data leakage via CalDAV endpoints.

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

Explicitly requires defining, enforcing, and reviewing authorizations and least privilege, directly preventing missing authorization checks.

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.

prevents

Requiring authentication and credentials before any access occurs eliminates the absence of authorization checks that would otherwise allow an unauthenticated actor to reach protected resources.

prevents

Requiring formal authorization of every access request before rights are granted ensures that checks for required permissions are performed, preventing missing authorization checks from being introduced.

prevents

Mandatory authorization checks and central records of granted rights ensure that every access attempt is preceded by an explicit decision rather than relying on missing checks.

mitigates

Segregating the approval of access rights from their implementation provides an independent check that reduces the impact of missing authorization checks in the resulting system configuration.

detects

By requiring competent outsiders to verify that every function enforces the need-to-know principle, the control lowers the likelihood that missing authorization checks persist undetected.

prevents

Defining authorization responsibilities and reviewing risk-treatment progress throughout the project lifecycle catches missing authorization checks before the system is deployed.

References