CVE-2026-33934 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 24.03.2026 Published: 25.03.2026 Updated: 25.03.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor openemr
Product openemr
Versions
  • Version < 8.0.0.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

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