CVE-2024-29200 — kimai
MEDIUMCVE-2024-29200 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.8) CWE-1220 vulnerability in kimai/kimai. A fix is available for kimai/kimai — see the affected versions and patch details below.
API returns timesheet entries a user should not be authorized to view
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-29200.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
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Real-World Exposure
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Description
Summary
The permission view_other_timesheet performs differently for the Kimai UI and the API, thus returning unexpected data through the API.
Details
When setting the view_other_timesheet permission to true, on the frontend, users can only see timesheet entries for teams they are a part of. When requesting all timesheets from the API, however, all timesheet entries are returned, regardless of whether the user shares team permissions or not.
Example:
There are projects P1 and P2, Teams T1 and T2, users U1 and U2 and Timesheet entries E1 and E2. U1 is team leader of team T1 and has access to P1. U2 is in Team T2 and has access to both P1 and P2. U2 creates E1 for P1 and E2 for P2.
In the UI, U1 with view _other_timesheet perms sees E1 as he is a part of T1 that has access to P1.
In the API, however, he has access to E1 and E2.
Additionally, if U1 is not a team leader T1, he does not see any timesheet from a user other than himself in the UI, but still all timesheets in the API.
PoC
- Give a user
view_other_timesheetpermission - The result of the UI and the API call to
/api/timesheets?user=alldiffers in the data that is being returned
Curl command:
curl -X 'GET' \
'https://kimai.instance.com/api/timesheets?user=all' \
-H 'accept: application/json' \
-H 'X-AUTH-USER: username' \
-H 'X-AUTH-TOKEN: api_token'
Impact
This is at least an insufficient granularity of access control weakness. People can see timesheet entries they are not supposed to. This greatly affects the confidentiality of timesheet entries.
Restricting API access to administrators is also not a valid solution, as API access is needed, for example, to use the mobile app.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | kimai/kimai | all versions | 2.13.0composer require kimai/kimai:^2.13.0 |
Affected Products
kimaikimaiDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for kimai/kimai, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update kimai/kimai to 2.13.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-29200 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used.
Frequently Asked Questions
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