CVE-2026-33934

OpenEMR's Missing Authorization in show-signature.php Allows Portal Patients to Read Staff Signatures

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Mar 25, 2026
Updated
Mar 26, 2026
Reserved
Mar 24, 2026

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Description

OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Versions prior to 8.0.0.3 have a missing authorization check in `portal/sign/lib/show-signature.php` that allows any authenticated patient portal user to retrieve the drawn signature image of any staff member by supplying an arbitrary `user` value in the POST body. The companion write endpoint (`save-signature.php`) was already hardened against this same issue, but the read endpoint was not updated to match. Version 8.0.0.3 patches the issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

ProductVersions
openemropenemr
  • < 8.0.0.3Affected

References

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