8.7

CVE-2026-91972: go-vikunja vikunja

CVSS: 8.7v4.0HighDeferred
AliasesGHSA-6rvj-qwjf-3m4qGO-2026-6721
Published 15-09-2026Last modified 17-09-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-91972 is a high (CVSS 8.7) vulnerability in go-vikunja vikunja. EPSS estimates a 0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.7/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.63%
0%100%
Low · +0.13 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. 17-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Vikunja versions before 2.6.0 fail to apply rate limiting to /api/v2 public authentication endpoints including login, register, password-reset, and OAuth token routes. Remote unauthenticated attackers can perform unbounded credential guessing, account enumeration, and password-reset flooding attacks without throttling restrictions.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.63%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

50%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.13 pp

From 0.50% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.63%

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< 2.6.0 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Go-vikunja1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

5 links