go-vikunja up to 2.2.x Login login.go HandleFailedTOTPAuth excessive authentication

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in go-vikunja vikunja up to 2.2.x. This vulnerability affects the function HandleFailedTOTPAuth of the file pkg/routes/api/v1/login.go of the component Login. Executing a manipulation can lead to excessive authentication. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-35597. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in go-vikunja vikunja up to 2.2.x and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function HandleFailedTOTPAuth of the file pkg/routes/api/v1/login.go of the component Login. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a excessive authentication vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-307. The product does not implement sufficient measures to prevent multiple failed authentication attempts within a short time frame, making it more susceptible to brute force attacks. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to 2.3.0, the TOTP failed-attempt lockout mechanism is non-functional due to a database transaction handling bug. When a TOTP validation fails, the login handler in pkg/routes/api/v1/login.go calls HandleFailedTOTPAuth and then unconditionally rolls back. HandleFailedTOTPAuth in pkg/user/totp.go uses an in-memory counter (key-value store) to track failed attempts. When the counter reaches 10, it calls user.SetStatus(s, StatusAccountLocked) on the same database session s. Because the login handler always rolls back after a TOTP failure, the StatusAccountLocked write is undone. The in-memory counter correctly increments past 10, so the lockout code executes on every subsequent attempt, but the database write is rolled back every time. This allows unlimited brute-force attempts against TOTP codes. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.0.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-35597 since 04/03/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1110.001 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 2.3.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 6ca0151d02fa0e8c7e2181ab916a28e08caaaec8 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• go-vikunja

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• vikunja

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• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/

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