CVE-2026-123523 PUBLISHED

Vikunja before 2.7.1 Memory Exhaustion via Unbounded Avatar Size Cache

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 06.11.2026 Published: 08.11.2026 Updated: 08.11.2026

Vikunja before 2.7.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows authenticated users to exhaust server memory by requesting avatars at many distinct sizes. Attackers can upload a noisy avatar and fetch it at each size up to 1024, caching roughly a gigabyte per account without eviction and causing the API process to be OOM-killed.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Product Status

Vendor go-vikunja
Product vikunja
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.7.1 (excl.)
  • Version 2.7.1 is unaffected

Credits

  • NotAFlightRisk reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE