CVE-2026-111921

Vikunja 0.13.0 before 2.7.0 contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability that allows project members with Write permission to delete admin-tier link shares because the delete permission check reads an unloaded share object. Attackers can send DELETE requests to the v1 or v2 projects shares endpoints with sequential share IDs to revoke admin links and invalidate existing share sessions.

Vikunja 0.13.0 before 2.7.0 contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability that allows project members with Write permission to delete admin-tier link shares because the delete permission check reads an unloaded share object. Attackers can send DELETE requests to the v1 or v2 projects shares endpoints with sequential share IDs to revoke admin links and invalidate existing share sessions.

Vikunja 0.13.0 before 2.7.0 contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability that allows project members with Write permission to delete admin-tier link shares because the delete permission check reads an unloaded share object. Attackers can send DELETE requests to the v1 or v2 projects shares endpoints with sequential share IDs to revoke admin links and invalidate existing share sessions.

Summary

A project member with Write permission can delete an admin-tier link share on that project. The deletion authorization check reads the permission from an object populated only with URL IDs, rather than from the stored share. Its zero value is Read, so the check falls through to project Write permission instead of requiring Admin.

Details

Affected endpoints:

• DELETE /api/v1/projects/{project}/shares/{share}
• DELETE /api/v2/projects/{project}/shares/{share}

Older v1 releases used /lists/{list}/shares/{share} before lists were renamed to projects.

In pkg/routes/api/v2/link_sharing.go:156, the delete handler passes &models.LinkSharing{ID: in.ID, ProjectID: in.ProjectID} to handler.DoDelete. The v1 generic handler likewise binds the URL IDs without loading the stored share.

pkg/web/handler/core.go:185 calls CanDelete before Delete. LinkSharing.CanDelete delegates to canDoLinkShare in pkg/models/link_sharing_permissions.go. That helper loads the project but does not load the link share, then evaluates:

if share.Permission == PermissionAdmin {
    return l.IsAdmin(s, a)
}
return l.CanWrite(s, a)

On deletion, share.Permission is its Go zero value, PermissionRead (0), even when the stored share grants PermissionAdmin (2). A Write member therefore passes authorization. LinkSharing.Delete subsequently deletes by share ID and project ID without checking the stored permission.

Create uses the requested permission and correctly rejects Write members creating admin shares. Share listing and by-ID reads are admin-gated in current main. There is no HTTP update route for link shares. Read-only members and link-share principals are rejected on deletion.

Affected versions and verification

The admin-tier check was introduced in commit 56dbb564eae83f2453efd1049f55e9d099b5d346, first included in v0.13, without loading the stored share on deletion. The affected range established by this review is >= 0.13.0, <= 2.6.0; versions before v0.13 have not been assessed here. The v2 route was added in b10768506, first included in v2.4.0.

The reporter states that both API versions were verified live against a local source build at a881ac39eecd07575a5aede8e74727c28d5fd578 on September 7, 2026. Maintainer-side source review confirmed the mechanism in that commit, release v2.6.0, and upstream main at a1a6ca48be142902f09fee62734310cb98a8c414. The live proof of concept was not independently rerun during this triage. No patched version is available at draft creation.

Impact

A Write collaborator can revoke an admin-tier access link on a project they can already write to. New consumers can no longer authenticate with that link. In versions with database-backed link-share JWT validation, deleting the share also immediately invalidates its existing sessions; the reporter observed HTTP 404 for a new hash exchange and HTTP 401 for an existing share token.

This is a bounded integrity and availability impact on external access to that project. It does not disclose data, grant Admin privileges, allow deletion of another project's shares, or permit the attacker to create a replacement admin share. The attacker must know or guess the numeric share ID; IDs are sequential.

Severity: Medium. CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization.

Proof of concept

Use two regular accounts on an instance you control. Let OWNER_TOKEN and WRITER_TOKEN be their session tokens. Create a project as the owner, grant the second account Write permission (permission: 1), and create an admin-tier share as the owner (permission: 2). Let PROJECT_ID and SHARE_ID identify that project and share.

First, verify that the Write member cannot create an admin-tier share:

curl -i -X POST "$BASE/api/v2/projects/$PROJECT_ID/shares" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $WRITER_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"permission":2}'
# Expected and reported: 403

Delete the owner's admin-tier share…

Vikunja 0.13.0 before 2.7.0 contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability that allows project members with Write permission to delete admin-tier link shares because the delete permission check reads an unloaded share object. Attackers can send DELETE requests to the v1 or v2 projects shares endpoints with sequential share IDs to revoke admin links and invalidate existing share sessions.

Vikunja 0.13.0 before 2.7.0 contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability that allows project members with Write permission to delete admin-tier link shares because the delete permission check reads an unloaded share object. Attackers can send DELETE requests to the v1 or v2 projects shares endpoints with sequential share IDs to revoke admin links and invalidate existing share sessions.

Summary

A project member with Write permission can delete an admin-tier link share on that project. The deletion authorization check reads the permission from an object populated only with URL IDs, rather than from the stored share. Its zero value is Read, so the check falls through to project Write permission instead of requiring Admin.

Details

Affected endpoints:

• DELETE /api/v1/projects/{project}/shares/{share}
• DELETE /api/v2/projects/{project}/shares/{share}

Older v1 releases used /lists/{list}/shares/{share} before lists were renamed to projects.

In pkg/routes/api/v2/link_sharing.go:156, the delete handler passes &models.LinkSharing{ID: in.ID, ProjectID: in.ProjectID} to handler.DoDelete. The v1 generic handler likewise binds the URL IDs without loading the stored share.

pkg/web/handler/core.go:185 calls CanDelete before Delete. LinkSharing.CanDelete delegates to canDoLinkShare in pkg/models/link_sharing_permissions.go. That helper loads the project but does not load the link share, then evaluates:

if share.Permission == PermissionAdmin {
    return l.IsAdmin(s, a)
}
return l.CanWrite(s, a)

On deletion, share.Permission is its Go zero value, PermissionRead (0), even when the stored share grants PermissionAdmin (2). A Write member therefore passes authorization. LinkSharing.Delete subsequently deletes by share ID and project ID without checking the stored permission.

Create uses the requested permission and correctly rejects Write members creating admin shares. Share listing and by-ID reads are admin-gated in current main. There is no HTTP update route for link shares. Read-only members and link-share principals are rejected on deletion.

Affected versions and verification

The admin-tier check was introduced in commit 56dbb564eae83f2453efd1049f55e9d099b5d346, first included in v0.13, without loading the stored share on deletion. The affected range established by this review is >= 0.13.0, <= 2.6.0; versions before v0.13 have not been assessed here. The v2 route was added in b10768506, first included in v2.4.0.

The reporter states that both API versions were verified live against a local source build at a881ac39eecd07575a5aede8e74727c28d5fd578 on September 7, 2026. Maintainer-side source review confirmed the mechanism in that commit, release v2.6.0, and upstream main at a1a6ca48be142902f09fee62734310cb98a8c414. The live proof of concept was not independently rerun during this triage. No patched version is available at draft creation.

Impact

A Write collaborator can revoke an admin-tier access link on a project they can already write to. New consumers can no longer authenticate with that link. In versions with database-backed link-share JWT validation, deleting the share also immediately invalidates its existing sessions; the reporter observed HTTP 404 for a new hash exchange and HTTP 401 for an existing share token.

This is a bounded integrity and availability impact on external access to that project. It does not disclose data, grant Admin privileges, allow deletion of another project's shares, or permit the attacker to create a replacement admin share. The attacker must know or guess the numeric share ID; IDs are sequential.

Severity: Medium. CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization.

Proof of concept

Use two regular accounts on an instance you control. Let OWNER_TOKEN and WRITER_TOKEN be their session tokens. Create a project as the owner, grant the second account Write permission (permission: 1), and create an admin-tier share as the owner (permission: 2). Let PROJECT_ID and SHARE_ID identify that project and share.

First, verify that the Write member cannot create an admin-tier share:

curl -i -X POST "$BASE/api/v2/projects/$PROJECT_ID/shares" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $WRITER_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"permission":2}'
# Expected and reported: 403

Delete the owner's admin-tier share…

Vikunja: Write-level project members can delete admin-tier link shares through an unloaded permission check in code.vikunja.io/api.

NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions.

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The additional affected modules and versions are: .