mediumVulnerability

CVE-2026-91981

### Summary A link-share token, the credential you hand out to let someone view a shared project, can call the v2 user-search endpoints, which it was never meant to reach. The v1 versions of the same endpoints correctly reject link-share tokens; the v2 versions don't. As a result, anyone with a share link can list every member of the shared project (and its parent projects), and can test whether any username exists anywhere on the instance. ### Details Two endpoints are affected: `GET /api/v2/projects/{id}/users/search` only checks project.CanRead, which a link share satisfies on its own project. With no parameter it returns the full user list, walking up the parent-project chain. `GET /api/v2/users?q=<name>` is a global search. It needs a query term, but any term works as an existence oracle: a hit confirms the username exists somewhere on the instance and returns the display name. Emails are correctly stripped from these responses, so the exposure is limited to identities (usernames and display names), but that's still an instance-wide directory that a share-link holder should never see. The fix is to resolve the caller with GetFromAuth in both handlers, so link-share tokens are rejected the same way v1 already rejects them. ### PoC 1. Get a link-share token. With any account that owns a project, create a read-only link share and note the hash, then exchange it: ``` POST /api/v1/shares/<hash>/auth {"password":""} ``` The response contains a token, a link-share JWT. 2. Confirm v1 blocks it (the fixed behavior). With that token: ``` GET /api/v1/projects/<id>/projectusers Authorization: Bearer <link_share_token> ``` → rejected: the token isn't a user token. 3. Now the vulnerable v2 endpoints, same token: ``` GET /api/v2/projects/<id>/users/search Authorization: Bearer <link_share_token> ``` → 200, full list of everyone with access to the project and its parents (id, username, name). ``` GET /api/v2/users?q=admin Authorization: Bearer <link_share_token> ``` → 2

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-vfxw-3x8p-2vjr
severity
medium
summary
Vikunja: Link-share token can enumerate users through the v2 API
last_source
GitHub Advisory Database
cve_id
CVE-2026-91981
signal_observed_at
2026-10-10T02:17:04+00:00
is_ghsa_only
false
retrieved_at
2026-10-10T02:17:04+00:00
ghsa_published
2026-10-09T20:52:39Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vfxw-3x8p-2vjr
ghsa_updated
2026-10-09T20:52:41Z

Related Entities (5)

REPORTED_BY (1)

→[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

←[Software]go/code.vikunja.io/api

AFFECTS (1)

→[Software]go/code.vikunja.io/api

HAS_WEAKNESS (2)

→[Weakness]Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
→[Weakness]Incorrect Authorization

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