7.1

CVE-2026-91968: go-vikunja vikunja Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSS: 7.1v4.0HighDeferred
AliasesGHSA-xxc3-xpmc-vmvrGO-2026-6759
Published 15-09-2026Last modified 15-09-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-91968 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in go-vikunja vikunja. EPSS estimates a 0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.1/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.44%
0%100%
Low · +0.07 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 15-09-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

vikunja versions before 2.6.0 contain a resource exhaustion vulnerability in the task-filter endpoint that accepts deeply nested filter expressions without recursion depth limits. Authenticated attackers can supply thousands of nested parentheses in the filter query parameter to exhaust memory and terminate the API process.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.44%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

37%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.07 pp

From 0.37% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.44%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Code.vikunja.io1 product
  • api≥ 2.5.0, < 2.6.0 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Go-vikunja1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

6 links