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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2026-52826 json

Kimai: Improper Authorization in Kimai Project, Customer, and Activity Rate Edit Endpoints Allows Cross-Scope Rate Manipulation

published 2026-07-14 3 mo ago modified 2026-09-23 46 d ago also GHSA-2xgg-2x8h-8xw4 , EUVD-2026-78405

cvss
5.3
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Kimai is an open-source time tracking application. Prior to 2.57.0, GET or POST requests to /en/admin/project/{id}/rate/{rate}, /en/admin/customer/{id}/rate/{rate}, and /en/admin/activity/{id}/rate/{rate} independently resolve the authorized parent identifier and the attacker-selected child rate identifier without confirming that the ProjectRate, CustomerRate, or ActivityRate belongs to that parent. An authenticated user who can edit one parent object can pair it with a rate record from an unauthorized project, customer, or activity and persist changes to billing configuration in kimai2_projects_rates, kimai2_customers_rates, or kimai2_activities_rates. This issue is fixed in version 2.57.0.

Patch / fix

  • packagist kimai/kimai 2.57.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
54 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 5.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist kimai/kimai
<2.57.0
2.57.0

Affected products

  • kimai kimai

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-285 Improper Authorization
  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

References

Sources

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