# CVE-2024-36399: Kanboard affected by Project Takeover via IDOR in ProjectPermissionController

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-06-06 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- kanboard: 1.2.37

## Description

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. The vuln is in app/Controller/ProjectPermissionController.php function addUser(). The users permission to add users to a project only get checked on the URL parameter project_id. If the user is authorized to add users to this project the request gets processed. The users permission for the POST BODY parameter project_id does not get checked again while processing. An attacker with the 'Project Manager' on a single project may take over any other project. The vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.37.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/security/advisories/GHSA-x8v7-3ghx-65cv
- https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/commit/b6703688aac8187f5ea4d4d704fc7afeeffeafa7

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