GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-m469-88xx-8rx2 Vikunja: CalDAV and feeds BasicAuth endpoints have no rate limit, bypassing the anti-brute-force floor on account passwords
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-91973
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- code.vikunja.io/api
- Severity
- Moderate
- Weaknesses
- CWE-307
- Reviewed
- 2026-10-09
Affected packages
• Go code.vikunja.io/api: < 2.6.0 → fixed in 2.6.0
Description
Summary
The `/dav`, `/.well-known`, and `/feeds` groups are registered on the root Echo instance with only BasicAuth and no rate limiter. CalDAV BasicAuth accepts the plain account password, so password guessing over `/dav` is unbounded and never returns 429, while `/api/v1/login` is throttled from the tenth attempt. The only anti-brute-force control on the instance is therefore bypassable.
Details
`pkg/routes/routes.go` (~lines 238-249) registers `/.well-known`, `/dav`, and `/feeds` with `middleware.BasicAuth(...)` and nothing else; `registerCalDavRoutes` adds no limiter. `pkg/routes/caldav/auth.go` (~lines 88-93) falls through to `user.CheckUserCredentials` with the plain account password when no CalDAV token matches. In contrast, `/register`, `/login`, etc. are wrapped by `unauthRateLimit()` — an unconditional 10/min/IP pre-auth floor that ignores `ratelimit.enabled` (default false).
TOTP-enabled accounts and bot users are correctly refused, so this targets password-only accounts.
PoC (verified at runtime against v2.5.0)
```
POST /api/v1/login x25 wrong passwords -> 429 from attempt 2 (throttled)
PROPFIND /dav/principals/{user}/ x60 wrong passwords -> 401 x60, 429 x0
GET /feeds/notifications.atom x30 wrong passwords -> 401 x30, 429 x0
PROPFIND /dav/... with correct password -> 207 (proves the 401s are real auth failures)
```
Impact
The anti-brute-force floor guarding `/login` is entirely absent on `/dav`, `/feeds`, and `/.well-known`, giving an unbounded credential-guessing surface against account passwords. (bcrypt caps throughput to a few guesses/second, but nothing caps the number of attempts.) Reported as an authentication-control bypass, not a DoS.
Fix
Apply the unconditional pre-auth rate-limit floor to the `/dav`, `/.well-known`, and `/feeds` groups.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-91973 Vikunja before 2.6.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in CalDAV BasicAuth endpoints that lack rate limiting protection. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts weakness
References
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-m469-88xx-8rx2 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-91973 advisory
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/pull/3688 web
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja package
- https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/releases/tag/v2.6.0 web
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vikunja-before-2.6.0-authentication-bypass-via-caldav-basicauth web