Kimai up to 2.52.x Twig Invoice Template Sandbox getApiToken/getPlainApiToken privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Kimai up to 2.52.x. Affected by this vulnerability is the function getApiToken/getPlainApiToken of the component Twig Invoice Template Sandbox. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-80201. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Kimai up to 2.52.x and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function getApiToken/getPlainApiToken of the component Twig Invoice Template Sandbox. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Kimai before 2.53.0 fails to block sensitive User methods in the Twig invoice template sandbox, allowing admins to call getApiToken() and getPlainApiToken() methods. Attackers with template creation permissions can embed these method calls in invoice templates to leak hashed API tokens in rendered invoice output.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-80201 since 08/26/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2.53.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Name

• Kimai

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.42
• 2.43
• 2.44
• 2.45
• 2.46
• 2.47
• 2.48
• 2.49
• 2.50
• 2.51
• 2.52

Website

• Product: https://github.com/kimai/kimai/

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