OpenEMR Patient Picture Context Allows Arbitrary Patient Photo Retrieval

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• open-emr openemrbefore 8.0.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• openemr openemr

  • < 8.0.0affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2020-19364OpenEMR 5.0.1 allows an authenticated attacker to upload and execute malicious PHP scripts through /controller.php.
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• CVE-2019-14530An issue was discovered in custom/ajax_download.php in OpenEMR before 5.0.2 via the fileName parameter.
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• CVE-2020-36243The Patient Portal of OpenEMR 5.0.2.1 is affected by a Command Injection vulnerability in /interface/main/backup.php.
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• CVE-2023-2948Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Generic in openemr/openemr
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• CVE-2022-2733Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected in openemr/openemr
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• CVE-2018-15153OS command injection occurring in versions of OpenEMR before 5.0.1.4 allows a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands by
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);2res.json(invoice);

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({2  id: req.params.id,3  ownerId: req.user.id,4});5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.