CVE-2026-123516
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CVE-2026-123516 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 4.3/10 on the CVSS scale. Vikunja before 2.7.1 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability in the vikunja-file ZIP importer that allows authenticated users to consume CPU and memory by uploading archives with excessive entries. Attackers can upload export ZIPs containing many empty or non-files/ entries that bypass the per-entry caps, forcing scanArchive to process every entry twice..
Description
Vikunja before 2.7.1 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability in the vikunja-file ZIP importer that allows authenticated users to consume CPU and memory by uploading archives with excessive entries. Attackers can upload export ZIPs containing many empty or non-files/ entries that bypass the per-entry caps, forcing scanArchive to process every entry twice.
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