CVE-2026-29794 PUBLISHED

Vikunja has Rate-Limit Bypass for Unauthenticated Users via Spoofed Headers

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 04.03.2026 Published: 20.03.2026 Updated: 20.03.2026

Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Starting in version 0.8 and prior to version 2.2.0, unauthenticated users are able to bypass the application's built-in rate-limits by spoofing the X-Forwarded-For or X-Real-IP headers due to the rate-limit relying on the value of (echo.Context).RealIP. Unauthenticated users can abuse endpoints available to them for different potential impacts. The immediate concern would be brute-forcing usernames or specific accounts' passwords. This bypass allows unlimited requests against unauthenticated endpoints. Version 2.2.0 patches the issue.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor go-vikunja
Product vikunja
Versions
  • Version >= 0.8, < 2.2.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-807: Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision CWE