What is GHSA-p4h8-xg7f-xqrc?

GHSA-p4h8-xg7f-xqrc is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Duplicate Advisory: Vikunja: Denial of service via decompression bomb in the data import

Why does GHSA-p4h8-xg7f-xqrc have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-p4h8-xg7f-xqrc?

GHSA-p4h8-xg7f-xqrc has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-p4h8-xg7f-xqrc?

GHSA-p4h8-xg7f-xqrc affects 1 product, including: go/github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja:\u003c= 2.5.0.

⚠ Withdrawn by GitHub Security Advisories

Withdrawn: October 9, 2026

GHSA-p4h8-xg7f-xqrcHighCVSS 6.5Disclosed before NVD

Duplicate Advisory: Vikunja: Denial of service via decompression bomb in the data import

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 15, 2026

Last Modified

October 9, 2026

📋 Description

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-w7jp-mf2v-8342. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

Vikunja before 2.6.0 fails to limit archive expansion during data import, allowing authenticated users to cause denial of service. Attackers can upload highly compressed files that expand to tens of gigabytes in memory and disk, exhausting server resources and crashing the instance.

🎯 Affected products1

go/github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja:<= 2.5.0

🔗 References (4)

https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-w7jp-mf2v-8342
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-91979
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vikunja-before-2.6.0-denial-of-service-via-decompression-bomb
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4h8-xg7f-xqrc