# CVE-2026-52819: Kimai: Teamlead authorization bypass in GET /api/timesheets allows reading other users' timesheet records without being teamlead of the target

- Also known as: GHSA-4M8Q-55QV-9PWP
- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.57.0
- Published: 2026-09-15 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- kimai: fixed in 2.57.0
- kimai/kimai (Packagist): fixed in 2.57.0

## Description

Kimai is an open-source time tracking application. Prior to 2.57.0, the GET /api/timesheets list endpoint accepts user and users[] target identifiers from a caller with view_other_timesheet but does not apply access_user or verify that a ROLE_TEAMLEAD requester leads a team containing each target user. TimesheetController::cgetAction() adds the resolved users directly to the query while project and customer filtering still permits records on unscoped projects or projects sharing ordinary team membership, allowing a teamlead to retrieve another user's descriptions, timing data, tags, rate, and internalRate even though GET /api/timesheets/{id} would deny access through TimesheetVoter. This issue is fixed in version 2.57.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kimai, kimai/kimai, upgrade to a fixed version (2.57.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/kimai/kimai/security/advisories/GHSA-4m8q-55qv-9pwp
- https://github.com/kimai/kimai/pull/5929
- https://github.com/kimai/kimai/commit/976d38e8a4485a1c923ee7b5841849e91a06e849
- https://github.com/kimai/kimai/releases/tag/2.57.0
- https://www.kimai.org/en/security/ghsa-4m8q-55qv-9pwp

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