{"answers":{"affected":"2 open source packages ship an affected version, including kimai/kimai. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-44298 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade kimai/kimai to 2.56 or later.","what":"CVE-2026-44298 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in kimai, published on 8 May 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-44298 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-44298 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in kimai, published on 8 May 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-44298 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- kimai/kimai (Packagist): affected from 2.32.0; fixed in 2.56\n- kimai/kimai (Packagist): affected from 2.32.0; fixed in 2.56\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-44298/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-44298/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-44298","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-44298/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-44298","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-h5fh-7hwr-97mw"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Kimai time tracking","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Admins can read arbitrary server files by uploading malicious PDF templates, exposing sensitive data to attackers with admin privileges.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"kimai","vendor":"kimai"}],"cvss":{"score":4.1,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"Kimai is an open-source time tracking application. From version 2.32.0 to before version 2.56.0, users with the role System-Admin (ROLE_SYSTE_ADMIN) and the permission upload_invoice_template can upload PDF invoice templates, which can call pdfContext.setOption('associated_files', ...) inside the sandboxed Twig render. This is forwarded to mPDF's SetAssociatedFiles(), whose writer calls file_get_contents($entry['path']) during PDF output and embeds the bytes as a FlateDecode stream in the PDF. Any file readable by the PHP worker is returned to the attacker inside the rendered invoice. This issue has been patched in version 2.56.0.","ecosystems":["Packagist"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Kimai: Arbitrary file read in invoice PDF renderer (admin)","id":"CVE-2026-44298","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Packagist","product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2026"},"n_packages":2,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"OpenCost ServiceKey Endpoint Unauthorized Credential Overwrite/Injection","id":"CVE-2026-44300"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["2.56"],"introduced":["2.32.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"kimai/kimai","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-h5fh-7hwr-97mw"},{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["2.56"],"introduced":["2.32.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"kimai/kimai","purl":"pkg:composer/kimai/kimai","source":"GHSA-h5fh-7hwr-97mw"}],"prev":{"headline":"Deskflow: TLS multiplexer DoS on failed `SSL_accept`","id":"CVE-2026-44296"},"products":["kimai"],"published":"2026-05-08","related":[{"cvss_score":9.6,"headline":"Cross-site Scripting in kimai/kimai","id":"CVE-2020-19825","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-02-15"},{"cvss_score":8.5,"headline":"Kimai 1.30.10 SameSite Cookie Vulnerability Session Hijacking","id":"CVE-2023-53957","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-12-19"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File in Kimai 2","id":"CVE-2021-43515","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-04-08"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"Kimai (Authenticated) SSTI to RCE by Uploading a Malicious Twig File","id":"CVE-2023-46245","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-10-31"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"Kimai Vulnerable to Authenticated Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI)","id":"CVE-2026-23626","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-01-18"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"API returns timesheet entries a user should not be authorized to view","id":"CVE-2024-29200","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-03-28"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Kimai: API invoice endpoint missing customer-level access control (IDOR)","id":"CVE-2026-28685","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-06"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-08","vendors":["kimai"]},"summary":"Admins can read arbitrary server files by uploading malicious PDF templates, exposing sensitive data to attackers with admin privileges.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-44298/"}