critical · 9.3 Patched

Vikunja: Link-share token reads any tenant's kanban buckets and enumerates usernames/IDs instance-wide (BOLA)

CVE-2026-68582 · GHSA-rj9j-8772-4h6c · GO-2026-6749 · published 9 Oct 2026

How serious is it

  • Severity: critical, CVSS score 9.3 out of 10.
  • No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
  • Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  • No public exploit in Exploit-DB.

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The advisory

## Summary The task-collection endpoint `GET /api/v1/projects/{project}/views/{view}/tasks` loads the requested project view straight from the URL path without verifying the caller is authorized for it. For a **link-share token**, the task query is correctly pinned to the share's own project, but the *view* is taken from the attacker-controlled path and never re-validated against the share. A holder of a share link to **any** project can therefore point the endpoint at any other tenant's kanban view and receive that view's bucket records — bucket titles plus the full `created_by` user object (username, name, id) — for every view in the instance. The same missing pre-authorization view load also yields a project/view-ID existence oracle (404 vs. non-404) usable by link shares and ordinary authenticated users alike. ## Details Root cause is in `TaskCollection.ReadAll` (`pkg/models/task_collection.go`). 1. The view is resolved from the URL params before any permission check: ```go // pkg/models/task_collection.go (ReadAll) if tf.ProjectViewID != 0 { view, err = GetProjectViewByIDAndProject(s, tf.ProjectViewID, tf.ProjectID) // (URL params) ... } ``` `GetProjectViewByIDAndProject` (`pkg/models/project_view.go`) filters only on `WHERE id = ? AND project_id = ?` — it performs no authorization. A valid `(project, view)` pair returns the view; an invalid pair returns `ErrProjectViewDoesNotExist` (HTTP 404). 2. For a link-share caller, the code pins the *task* scope to the token's own project but reuses the attacker-supplied `view`: ```go shareAuth, is := a.(*LinkSharing) if is { project, err := GetProjectSimpleByID(s, shareAuth.ProjectID) // token's project ... return getTaskOrTasksInBuckets(s, a, []*Project{project}, view, opts, filteringForBucket, tf.forceFlatTasks) // `view` is the foreign, attacker-controlled view — never validated against shareAuth.ProjectID } ``` 3. `getTaskOrTasksInBuckets` → `GetTasksInBucketsForView` (`pkg/models/kanban.go`) reads the buckets of that foreign view directly: ```go err = s.Where("project_view_id = ?", view.ID).OrderBy("position").Find(&buckets) ... users, err := getUsersOrLinkSharesFromIDs(s, userIDs) // resolves each bucket's created_by ``` Each returned `Bucket` serializes `CreatedBy *user.User` as `json:"created_by"` (`pkg/models/kanban.go`), exposing the creating user's username, name, and id. The normal (non-share) path is protected because it runs `getRelevantProjectsFromCollection`, which calls `project.CanRead` on the URL project and returns 403 before any bucket data is produced. Only the `LinkSharing` branch skips that gate, which is why the bucket disclosure is link-share-specific. `ReadAllWeb` (`pkg/web/handler/read_all.go`) performs no permission check of its own, so all authorization for this endpoint lives inside `ReadAll`. Scope of the leak (verified against fixtures): the *tasks* returned inside the buckets are still constrained to the share's own project (`getRawTasksForProjects` filters `tasks.project_id IN opts.projectIDs`, derived from the share's project). So victim task **contents do not leak**; what leaks is the foreign view's bucket structure and, critically, the `created_by` user identities of arbitrary buckets instance-wide. Introduced in v0.24.0 by the per-view kanban feature (`feat(views)!: return tasks in buckets by view`), which added the `views/{view}/tasks` endpoint and the foreign-view bucket load. The link-share branch predates it, but the two only combine into this bug from v0.24.0 onward. ## Impact A holder of a link-share token to any single project (link shares are designed to be handed out, often semi-publicly) can: - **Enumerate all project and view IDs instance-wide.** IDs are sequential auto-increment integers; an invalid `(project, view)` pair returns 404 while a valid one returns 200, giving a reliable existence oracle across all tenants. - **Disclose the `created_by` user of any kanban view's buckets** — username, display name, and user id. Because Vikunja auto-creates a default project with a Kanban view for every user, iterating view IDs enumerates usernames and user IDs for essentially every account on the instance. - **Disclose bucket titles** of every kanban view in the instance. This is a cross-tenant broken-object-level-authorization bypass. It does not disclose victim task contents through this path, but instance-wide username/user-id enumeration plus kanban structure disclosure is a meaningful PII and reconnaissance exposure that defeats the tenant isolation the permission model is meant to enforce. The ID-enumeration oracle additionally works for any ordinary authenticated user (invalid combo → 404 vs. inaccessible combo → 403), because the view is loaded before the `CanRead` check. ## Proof of Concept Prerequisites: link sharing enabled (default), a share link to any project (call it project A), and any second project B (e.g. another tenant's) with a kanban view V_B. 1. Authenticate the share link to obtain a share JWT: `POST /api/v1/shares/{shareHash}/auth` 2. Using that token, request a foreign kanban view's tasks: `GET /api/v1/projects/{B}/views/{V_B}/tasks` 3. The 200 response is a list of `Bucket` objects belonging to view `V_B` — each with `title` and a populated `created_by` (username, name, id) — even though the token has no relationship to project B. 4. Iterate `{B}`/`{V_B}` over sequential integers: valid pairs return bucket lists (harvest usernames/ids), invalid pairs return 404. Verified locally against the model fixtures: a `LinkSharing{ProjectID: 1}` (project 1 owned by user 1) calling `TaskCollection{ProjectID: 2, ProjectViewID: 8}.ReadAll` (project 2 owned by user 3) returns project 2's buckets (`"testbucket4 - other project"`, `"testbucket40"`) with their `created_by` user objects populated, and no error — while a nonexistent view id returns `ErrProjectViewDoesNotExist`. ## Recommended Fix In `TaskCollection.ReadAll`, before th…

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References

Merged from GitHub Advisory Database, OSV. Last updated 23 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON