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CVE-2026-35594: Vikunja Link Share JWT tokens remain valid for 72 hours after share deletion or permission downgrade

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-04-10 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-613

Description

Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to 2.3.0, Vikunja's link share authentication (GetLinkShareFromClaims in pkg/models/link_sharing.go) constructs authorization objects entirely from JWT claims without any server-side database validation. When a project owner deletes a link share or downgrades its permissions, all previously issued JWTs continue to grant the original permission level for up to 72 hours (the default service.jwtttl). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.0.

Affected products

• go-vikunja vikunja: before 2.3.0 — fixed in 2.3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: go-vikunja vikunja 2.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/379d8a5c19334ffe4846003f590e202c31a75479
• https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/pull/2581
• https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/releases/tag/v2.3.0
• https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-96q5-xm3p-7m84
• https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-96q5-xm3p-7m84

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