CVE-2026-33934
MEDIUMOpenEMR's Missing Authorization in show-signature.php Allows Portal Patients to Read Staff Signatures
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-w9w5-7x6h-657q
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/ae7ee1872d2e6300b165e24687cc90cf6847a4e5
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/releases/tag/v8_0_0_3
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
14.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-639
CWE-862
Status
published
Products (2)
open-emr/openemr
< 8.0.0.3
openemr/openemr
< 8.0.0.3
Published
Mar 26, 2026
Tracked Since
Mar 26, 2026