Vikunja through 2.4.0 contains a principal-type confusion vulnerability where LinkSharing principals with id N are treated as user principals with users.id == N at three permission checks lacking type guards. Attackers with a link-share JWT can remove victims from teams, enumerate and delete victim bot users, or read team rosters by exploiting id collisions in the autoincrement space.
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Description Vikunja through 2.4.0 contains a principal-type confusion vulnerability where LinkSharing principals with id N are treated as user principals with users.id == N at three permission checks lacking type guards. Attackers with a link-share JWT can remove victims from teams, enumerate and delete victim bot users, or read team rosters by exploiting id collisions in the autoincrement space.
Title Vikunja through 2.4.0 Principal-Type Confusion via LinkSharing
First Time appeared Vikunja
Vikunja vikunja
Weaknesses CWE-639
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:vikunja:vikunja:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Vikunja
Vikunja vikunja
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-19T14:02:01.282Z

Reserved: 2026-08-19T11:35:13.689Z

Link: CVE-2026-76216

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-19T14:17:47.743

Modified: 2026-08-19T14:17:47.743

Link: CVE-2026-76216

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