Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. From 0.21.0 until 2.4.0, the project duplication operation in pkg/models/project_duplicate.go allows an authenticated user who can read a source project to place its duplicate beneath an arbitrary target parent project. ProjectDuplicate.CanCreate calls parent.CanCreate on an unhydrated Project containing only the body supplied parent_project_id instead of calling parent.CanWrite, so the target parent write-permission check is skipped. The ordinary project creation path enforces that permission, but PUT /api/v1/projects/{project}/duplicate does not, allowing attacker-owned content to be injected into another user or team project hierarchy. This issue is fixed in version 2.4.0.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-f27p-pw2p-9pr4 Vikunja has a project duplication bypasses write-permission check on the target parent project
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Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. From 0.21.0 until 2.4.0, the project duplication operation in pkg/models/project_duplicate.go allows an authenticated user who can read a source project to place its duplicate beneath an arbitrary target parent project. ProjectDuplicate.CanCreate calls parent.CanCreate on an unhydrated Project containing only the body supplied parent_project_id instead of calling parent.CanWrite, so the target parent write-permission check is skipped. The ordinary project creation path enforces that permission, but PUT /api/v1/projects/{project}/duplicate does not, allowing attacker-owned content to be injected into another user or team project hierarchy. This issue is fixed in version 2.4.0.
Title Vikunja: Project duplication bypasses write-permission check on the target parent project
Weaknesses CWE-285
CWE-863
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-28T19:59:25.820Z

Reserved: 2026-06-15T23:23:57.713Z

Link: CVE-2026-54766

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-28T19:59:01.391Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-28T20:18:17.803

Modified: 2026-08-28T22:16:49.957

Link: CVE-2026-54766

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-28T21:00:04Z

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