OpenEMR: Missing Authorization on Document Template Download Endpoint Allows Any Authenticated User to Read Another Patient's PHI
- Exploited
- No known exploitation
- Fix
- Fixed in 8.3.0
- Who is exposed
- Not reported
Do first: Upgrade to a fixed version: 8.3.0.
- Last modified
- A 0-100 score for how much a CVE matters across the industry: exploitation, exposure, how widely the software is used, severity and whether a fix exists.What do these mean? →
- 10/100 · provisional
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
OpenEMR, an open source electronic health records application, lets a remote attacker who has a low-privilege login read another patient's protected health information, including demographics, encounter details, allergies, medications, and problem list. The attacker does this by selecting another patient and downloading a document template, which bypasses the access check for patient documents.
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OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Prior to 8.3.0, library/ajax/set_pt.php allows any authenticated user to set an arbitrary patient identifier in the active session without an ACL check, and interface/patient_file/download_template.php trusts that session value while enforcing only CSRF validation. A low-privilege user can select another patient and download a rendered document template containing the patient's demographics, encounter information, allergies, medications, and problem list despite lacking patients/docs access. This issue is fixed in version 8.3.0.
cve.now Index
- Exploitation?/40Unknown. No CISA SSVC exploitation rating yet
- Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Unknown: No advisory context yet
- Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
- Severity6.5/10CVSS 6.5
- No patch0/5No signal
What would change the score
- Would score about 65 if added to CISA KEV
- Would score about 60 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
- Would score about 29 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed
What to do
Upgrade to a fixed version: 8.3.0.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
Affected versions
- openemr openemr
fixed in 8.3.0
Evidence 4
- Advisory
- Repository
- Repository
- Repository
Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about CVE-2026-104139
Is CVE-2026-104139 being exploited?
It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-104139?
openemr: before 8.3.0.Source: cve.now feed data
How do I fix CVE-2026-104139?
Upgrade to a fixed version: 8.3.0.Source: cve.now feed data