Kimai Favorite Timesheet Add and Remove Endpoints Allows Cross-User Bookmark Manipulation

Overview

Summary

Kimai 2.56.0 contains an authenticated improper authorization / IDOR vulnerability in the favorite timesheet add and remove endpoints. A low-privileged user who knows another user's timesheet.id can add that record to, or remove it from, the victim's favorite/recent bookmark list. This allows cross-user manipulation of per-user favorite state without administrative privileges.

Details

The issue affects the following routes:

• GET /en/favorite/timesheet/add/{id}
• GET /en/favorite/timesheet/remove/{id}

Both endpoints accept a user-controlled timesheet identifier and only require the caller to hold the generic start_own_timesheet permission. They do not verify that the referenced Timesheet object belongs to the currently authenticated user.

• In src/Controller/FavoriteController.php, the controller methods accept a Timesheet object directly and forward it to the favorite service.
• The root cause becomes more obvious in src/Timesheet/FavoriteRecordService.php. The bookmark owner is derived from $timesheet->getUser() instead of the current session user.
• Because of this design, any authenticated user who can reference another user's timesheet ID can modify the victim's favorite/recent bookmark data.

A PoC was provided, but removed for security reasons.

Impact

This vulnerability allows any authenticated low-privileged user to manipulate another user's favorite bookmark state across accounts. An attacker can inject arbitrary victim-owned timesheet entries into the victim's quick-entry workflow, remove existing favorites, and repeatedly disturb the victim's normal timesheet usage without needing administrative privileges.

The issue does not directly disclose sensitive data, but it is a real cross-user business-state tampering vulnerability with clear integrity impact. Because the add and remove endpoints can be combined, an attacker can reliably insert, remove, and reorder entries in another user's favorite/recent list.

Affected packages

• kimai/kimai <= 2.56.0

Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

• kimai/kimai 2.57.0