CVE-2026-49865 (GCVE-0-2026-49865)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 21:08 – Updated: 2026-09-14 19:58

Title

Kimai has Server-Side Request Forgery in Invoice PDF Rendering via Markdown Image URLs

Summary

Kimai is an open-source time tracking application. Versions prior to 2.58.0 contain a server-side request forgery vulnerability in their invoice PDF preview and generation workflow. If an attacker can control Markdown content that is later rendered into an invoice PDF, such as `Customer.invoiceText`, the server-side PDF renderer will fetch remote image URLs embedded in Markdown image syntax. This allows the application server to issue outbound requests to attacker-controlled or internal targets during PDF rendering. The behavior can be used for internal network probing, server-side reachability checks, and potentially follow-on exploitation depending on deployment environment and accessible internal services. Version 2.58.0 patches the issue.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-14 19:58 UTC

CWE

CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/kimai/kimai/security/advisorie…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
kimai	kimai	Affected: < 2.58.0	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-49865

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-11 21:17 - Updated: 2026-09-14 20:16

Severity

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/kimai/kimai/security/advisories/GHSA-pj8j-p4g4-4vw8

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-PJ8J-P4G4-4VW8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-10 16:04 – Updated: 2026-07-10 16:04

Summary

Kimai has Server-Side Request Forgery in Invoice PDF Rendering via Markdown Image URLs

Details

Summary

Kimai 2.56.0 contains a server-side request forgery vulnerability in its invoice PDF preview and generation workflow. If an attacker can control Markdown content that is later rendered into an invoice PDF, such as Customer.invoiceText, the server-side PDF renderer will fetch remote image URLs embedded in Markdown image syntax.

This allows the application server to issue outbound requests to attacker-controlled or internal targets during PDF rendering. The behavior can be used for internal network probing, server-side reachability checks, and potentially follow-on exploitation depending on deployment environment and accessible internal services.

Details

The vulnerable behavior occurs in the invoice rendering chain when user-controlled Markdown is transformed into HTML and then rendered by mPDF.

First, customer invoice text is copied into the invoice model. . Second, the default PDF invoice template renders that field through the Markdown-to-HTML filter.
Third, md2html enables full Markdown rendering.
Although safe mode is enabled, the tested Markdown image syntax still survives into the rendered HTML chain in a form that causes the PDF renderer to fetch the image resource.
Finally, the HTML is handed to mPDF.

The live test confirms that mPDF attempts to retrieve the remote image URL from the server side during PDF preview. This means the issue is not a template-injection problem but an SSRF condition caused by the rendering pipeline:

attacker-controlled Markdown
Markdown converted to HTML
HTML rendered by mPDF
mPDF fetches remote image resources from the server side

A PoC was provided, but removed for security reasons.

Impact

This vulnerability allows an attacker who can influence invoice-rendered Markdown fields to cause the Kimai server to make outbound requests to arbitrary destinations. In real deployments, this can be used to probe internal services, test access to internal administrative or metadata endpoints, and confirm server-side reachability to attacker-controlled infrastructure.

Depending on the environment, SSRF can also become a stepping stone toward more serious outcomes, such as triggering side effects on internal HTTP services or extracting sensitive information from services reachable only by the server. Because invoice generation is commonly performed by administrative or finance-related users, the feature is realistically reachable in business workflows.

Solution

Kimai does not allow to use markdown images any longer and converts them to HTML links instead
Kimai uses a specialized HttpClient for mPDF (called NoPrivateNetworkHttpClient), which prevents access to a variety of URLs, the full list can be fetched from the documentation
This change can be a BC break, if someone used
the Kimai domain for hosting invoice or export template images
an internal IP for hosting invoice or export template images

See https://www.kimai.org/en/security/ghsa-pj8j-p4g4-4vw8

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                  
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  "details": "### Summary\n\nKimai 2.56.0 contains a server-side request forgery vulnerability in its invoice PDF preview and generation workflow. If an attacker can control Markdown content that is later rendered into an invoice PDF, such as `Customer.invoiceText`, the server-side PDF renderer will fetch remote image URLs embedded in Markdown image syntax.\n\nThis allows the application server to issue outbound requests to attacker-controlled or internal targets during PDF rendering. The behavior can be used for internal network probing, server-side reachability checks, and potentially follow-on exploitation depending on deployment environment and accessible internal services.\n\n### Details\n\nThe vulnerable behavior occurs in the invoice rendering chain when user-controlled Markdown is transformed into HTML and then rendered by mPDF.\n\n- First, customer invoice text is copied into the invoice model.\n. Second, the default PDF invoice template renders that field through the Markdown-to-HTML filter. \n- Third, `md2html` enables full Markdown rendering. \n- Although safe mode is enabled, the tested Markdown image syntax still survives into the rendered HTML chain in a form that causes the PDF renderer to fetch the image resource.\n- Finally, the HTML is handed to mPDF. \n\nThe live test confirms that mPDF attempts to retrieve the remote image URL from the server side during PDF preview. This means the issue is not a template-injection problem but an SSRF condition caused by the rendering pipeline:\n\n- attacker-controlled Markdown\n- Markdown converted to HTML\n- HTML rendered by mPDF\n- mPDF fetches remote image resources from the server side\n\n*A PoC was provided, but removed for security reasons.*\n\n### Impact\n\nThis vulnerability allows an attacker who can influence invoice-rendered Markdown fields to cause the Kimai server to make outbound requests to arbitrary destinations. In real deployments, this can be used to probe internal services, test access to internal administrative or metadata endpoints, and confirm server-side reachability to attacker-controlled infrastructure.\n\nDepending on the environment, SSRF can also become a stepping stone toward more serious outcomes, such as triggering side effects on internal HTTP services or extracting sensitive information from services reachable only by the server. Because invoice generation is commonly performed by administrative or finance-related users, the feature is realistically reachable in business workflows.\n\n# Solution\n\n- Kimai does not allow to use markdown images any longer and converts them to HTML links instead\n- Kimai uses a specialized HttpClient for mPDF (called `NoPrivateNetworkHttpClient`), which prevents access to a variety of URLs, the full list can be fetched [from the documentation](https://www.kimai.org/documentation/pdf-templates.html#embedding-images)\n- This change can be a BC break, if someone used \n  - the Kimai domain for hosting invoice or export template images \n  - an internal IP for hosting invoice or export template images \n\nSee https://www.kimai.org/en/security/ghsa-pj8j-p4g4-4vw8",
  "id": "GHSA-pj8j-p4g4-4vw8",
  "modified": "2026-07-10T16:04:40Z",
  "published": "2026-07-10T16:04:40Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/kimai/kimai/security/advisories/GHSA-pj8j-p4g4-4vw8"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/kimai/kimai"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Kimai has Server-Side Request Forgery in Invoice PDF Rendering via Markdown Image URLs"
}

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CVE-2026-49865 (GCVE-0-2026-49865)

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GHSA-PJ8J-P4G4-4VW8

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