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CVE-2026-62376
Vikunja: Plaintext storage of password-reset/email-confirm tokens in database enables account takeover on DB read access
High8.1EPSS 0.28%
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- Updated
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- GitHub_M
Description
Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Versions prior to 2.4.0 store password-reset, email-confirmation, and account-deletion tokens in the `user_tokens` table in plaintext. If an attacker gains read access to the database through a backup leak, misconfigured storage, or SQL-level exposure, they can immediately use pending tokens to take over user accounts without knowing passwords. Version 2.4.0 fixes the issue.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 80% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 2.4.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gocode.vikunja.io/apiGHSA-r6w9-259g-gwrv (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-r6w9-259g-gwrv (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/00fd2c6155c01faae99be4226b931d8091fd6323 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/3a0ea15d8c18ff960bc98ae39950fa7a14b0af7d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/e31ea2de5040fa63bc97cf4df63bafed3bd9ad85 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/releases/tag/v2.4.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-r6w9-259g-gwrv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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