CVE-2026-52825Kimai: Improper Authorization in Kimai Team Member and Team Activity Assignment APIs Allows Expansion of Team Scope Beyond Authorized Visibility
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Kimai is an open-source time tracking application. Prior to 2.58.0, POST /api/teams/{id}/members/{userId} and POST /api/teams/{id}/activities/{activityId} verify that a teamlead may edit the Team but do not verify access_user for the referenced User or view access for the referenced Activity. A teamlead can add users or activities outside the teamlead's manageable scope to an editable team, bypassing the narrower choices enforced by TeamEditForm and UserRepository::getQueryBuilderForFormType(). The resulting relationships can be trusted by RolePermissionManager::checkTeamAccessActivity() and other team-based authorization, visibility, reporting, and workflow logic. This issue is fixed in version 2.58.0.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium5.3 | 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 |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium5.3 | 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 |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistkimai/kimaiGHSA-xv4r-4885-gwpg (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://github.com/kimai/kimai/security/advisories/GHSA-xv4r-4885-gwpg (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/kimai/kimai/pull/5952 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kimai/kimai/commit/31a8f887a5cda517db7b4320a7ad997c87d08601 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kimai/kimai/releases/tag/2.58.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.kimai.org/en/security/ghsa-xv4r-4885-gwpg (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-78401 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xv4r-4885-gwpg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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