CVE-2026-91968: Vikunja: Unbounded nested task-filter recursion permits API process termination
Authenticated task-list routes accept a filter expression without a length or nesting-depth bound, preprocess it, parse it recursively through fexpr, and recursively convert the resulting expression tree. A syntactically valid deeply nested expression well below the HTTP request-size ceiling exhausts memory and kills the API process.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-xxc3-xpmc-vmvr
- github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/pull/3688
- github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/releases/tag/v2.6.0
- github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-xxc3-xpmc-vmvr
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-91968
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vikunja-before-2.6.0-denial-of-service-via-unbounded-filter-recursion
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