# CVE-2026-111920: Vikunja 2.6.0 Broken Access Control via Inherited Project Permissions

- Also known as: GHSA-PJR3-86V4-5P7W, GO-2026-6745
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-17 · Updated: 2026-10-18

## Affected

- go-vikunja vikunja: 2.6.0
- code.vikunja.io/api (Go): 2.6.0
- code.vikunja.io/api (Go): all versions

## Description

Vikunja 2.6.0 contains a broken access control flaw in getProjectAccessForUser (pkg/models/project_access.go), which resolves a user's effective project permission as the maximum over the project tree, silently overriding explicit lower-permission shares on sub-projects. A collaborator with write access on a parent project but read-only access to a child project can modify the child project's tasks and content.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on go-vikunja vikunja, code.vikunja.io/api, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-pjr3-86v4-5p7w
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vikunja-2.6.0-broken-access-control-via-inherited-project-permissions

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