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

What is CVE-2024-36399?

CVE-2024-36399 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in kanboard, published on 6 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-639, CWE-285, CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-36399?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Kanboard Kanboard.

How do I fix CVE-2024-36399?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-36399 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-36399 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36399 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in kanboard

• CVE-2026-21881 Kanboard is Vulnerable to Reverse Proxy Authentication Bypass Critical 9.1
• CVE-2025-55010 Kanboard Authenticated Admin Remote Code Execution via Unsafe Deserialization of Events Critical 9.1
• CVE-2024-51747 Arbitrary File Read and Delete in kanboard Critical 9.1
• CVE-2024-51748 Remote code execution through language setting in kanboard Critical 9.1
• CVE-2017-12850 Business logic in n/a High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x8v7-3ghx-65cv.