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Vulnerability disclosure

Document recategorization bypasses cross-patient access controls

GHSA-89j2-7cg2-mm93

Affected product
OpenEMR
Severity
High
Disclosed

Summary

A low-privileged OpenEMR staff account could move another patient's document into a readable category without document-management permission. Supplying an empty patient identifier then bypassed the ownership check when retrieving the file. The reported test demonstrated recategorization and download, not modification of the file contents. Affects versions before 8.3.0; fixed in 8.3.0.

Disclosure timeline

Public disclosure

Credits

Reported by christos-cantina-security, as credited in OpenEMR's advisory.

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