CVE-2026-91979 PUBLISHED

Vikunja before 2.6.0 Denial of Service via Decompression Bomb

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 15.09.2026 Published: 15.09.2026 Updated: 15.09.2026

Vikunja before 2.6.0 fails to limit archive expansion during data import, allowing authenticated users to cause denial of service. Attackers can upload highly compressed files that expand to tens of gigabytes in memory and disk, exhausting server resources and crashing the instance.

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

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

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Network	Confidentiality	None	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	None	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

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Vendor	go-vikunja
Product	vikunja
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 2.6.0 (excl.) Version 2.6.0 is unaffected

CVE-2026-91979 PUBLISHED

Vikunja before 2.6.0 Denial of Service via Decompression Bomb

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