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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2026-29794 json

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

published 2026-03-20 7 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2026-13706 , GHSA-m547-hp4w-j6jx , GO-2026-4791

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go code.vikunja.io/api 2.2.0
  • vikunja vikunja 2.2.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20260326T203309-150000.1.155.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1135-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
7 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-m547-hp4w-j6jx referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go code.vikunja.io/api
>=0.8, <2.2.0
all versions
2.2.0

Affected products

  • go-vikunja vikunja

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.