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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-52821 EUVD-2026-78400GHSA-3q6q-26vg-v97x

Kimai: Improper Authorization in Kimai Activity Creation with Preset Project Allows Creation Under Unauthorized Projects

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Kimai is an open-source time tracking application. Prior to 2.57.0, GET or POST requests to /en/admin/activity/create/{project} and /en/admin/project/create/{customer} require only the generic create_activity or create_project capability and do not verify edit access to the supplied Project or Customer object. A user who knows a valid project.id or customer identifier can use the preset-parent creation logic in src/Controller/ActivityController.php or src/Controller/ProjectController.php to persist a new child business object under an unauthorized parent, polluting project or customer configuration and influencing later time-entry, rate, reporting, and billing behavior. This issue is fixed in version 2.57.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
kimai kimai < 2.57.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist kimai/kimai < 2.57.0 2.57.0 GHSA-3q6q-26vg-v97x

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