CVE-2026-62367: Vikunja OIDC Email-fallback Account Linking Ignores Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-xv7q-fvmc-jx96",
  "modified" : "2026-10-09T20:49:06Z",
  "published" : "2026-10-09T20:49:06Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2026-62367" ],
  "summary" : "Vikunja: OIDC email-fallback account linking ignores email_verified, enabling local-account takeover",
  "details" : "## Summary\n\nWith the per-provider OIDC `emailfallback` option enabled, Vikunja links an SSO login to a pre-existing **local** (username+password) account using only the `email` claim — no `email_verified` (or Microsoft `xms_edov`) check and no password check, on the unauthenticated callback. An attacker who can make the configured issuer emit a token bearing a victim's email logs in as that victim with a full session and no victim interaction (the nOAuth / Grafana CVE-2023-3128 class). The 2.3.0 fix for GHSA-8jvc-mcx6-r4cg added a TOTP gate, not an `email_verified` gate, so users without TOTP remain exposed.\n\n## Details\n\nReferences are `pkg/modules/auth/openid/openid.go` at HEAD. Identity is first resolved on the immutable `(issuer, subject)` pair (`openid.go:428`). On a subject miss with `emailfallback` on, `fallbackSearchUsers` adds an email-only lookup against local accounts:\n\n```go\n// openid.go:413\nsearches = append(searches, &user.User{Issuer: user.IssuerLocal, Email: cl.Email})\n```\n\n`getUser` resolves this via `s.Get()`, which ANDs non-zero fields -> `WHERE issuer='local' AND email=?`. Local users always have `Issuer=\"local\"` (`user_create.go:38`), so the lookup matches any local account by email alone; `getOrCreateUser` returns it and the caller mints a session — the password is never read. The `claims` struct has no `email_verified` field (`openid.go:80`) and `getClaims` never consults one; a repo-wide grep for `email_verified`/`xms_edov` returns nothing. The code already warns about this at `openid.go:388` (\"Discouraged for untrusted providers where someone can set email without verification\") — but enforces nothing.\n\n## Impact\n\nUnauthenticated takeover of any existing **local** account (read/write/delete its projects, tasks, attachments, shares), bypassing the password. Scope notes: only `issuer='local'` accounts are matched (not pure-SSO users); the attacker's `sub` is not bound to the victim record, but the attack is repeatable; TOTP users are protected by the 2.3.0 `enforceTOTPIfRequired` gate (`openid.go:250`), non-TOTP users are not.\n\n## Preconditions\n\n1. Admin enabled `emailfallback: true` (defaults false — a default install is unaffected).\n2. The configured issuer lets the attacker assert the victim's unverified email: a self-service IdP (Keycloak/Authentik/Auth0/Dex with editable email), a mixed federation, or a multi-tenant Entra `/common` app. `iss`/`aud` are pinned, but the attacker controls `email`, not the issuer.\n3. The victim has a local account.\n\nNot reachable against a single-tenant IdP that verifies email and disallows self-set addresses.\n\n## Recommended Fix\n\nAdd `email_verified` to the `claims` struct and require it `true` on the email-fallback branch before linking to a local account; reject when absent/false. For Entra also require `xms_edov` and pin multi-tenant configs to an allowed-tenant list. Fail closed on an email collision not backed by a verified email from a trusted single-tenant issuer rather than silently logging the caller in.",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V4",
    "score" : "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "Go",
      "name" : "code.vikunja.io/api"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "1.0.0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "2.4.0"
      } ]
    } ],
    "database_specific" : {
      "last_known_affected_version_range" : "<= 2.3.0"
    }
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/security/advisories/GHSA-xv7q-fvmc-jx96"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/commit/7854f2729ab72000210b61c25929678fd6901630"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/releases/tag/v2.4.0"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-287", "CWE-290", "CWE-345" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2026-10-09T20:49:06Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : null
  }
}