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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 20, 2026· Updated Mar 20, 2026

Vikunja has Rate-Limit Bypass for Unauthenticated Users via Spoofed Headers

CVE-2026-29794

Description

Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Starting in version 0.8 and prior to version 2.2.0, unauthenticated users are able to bypass the application's built-in rate-limits by spoofing the X-Forwarded-For or X-Real-IP headers due to the rate-limit relying on the value of (echo.Context).RealIP. Unauthenticated users can abuse endpoints available to them for different potential impacts. The immediate concern would be brute-forcing usernames or specific accounts' passwords. This bypass allows unlimited requests against unauthenticated endpoints. Version 2.2.0 patches the issue.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
code.vikunja.io/apiGo
>= 0.8, < 2.2.02.2.0

Affected products

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Patches

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