Vikunja before 2.7.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows authenticated users to exhaust server memory by requesting avatars at many distinct sizes. Attackers can upload a noisy avatar and fetch it at each size up to 1024, caching roughly a gigabyte per account without eviction and causing the API process to be OOM-killed.
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Sun, 08 Nov 2026 01:45:00 +0000
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| Description | Vikunja before 2.7.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows authenticated users to exhaust server memory by requesting avatars at many distinct sizes. Attackers can upload a noisy avatar and fetch it at each size up to 1024, caching roughly a gigabyte per account without eviction and causing the API process to be OOM-killed. | |
| Title | Vikunja before 2.7.1 Memory Exhaustion via Unbounded Avatar Size Cache | |
| First Time appeared |
Vikunja
Vikunja vikunja |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:vikunja:vikunja:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
Vikunja
Vikunja vikunja |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-08T01:37:33.144Z
Reserved: 2026-11-06T00:47:14.650Z
Link: CVE-2026-123523
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-11-08T02:16:41.780
Modified: 2026-11-08T02:16:41.907
Link: CVE-2026-123523
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-11-08T03:30:15Z
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