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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-124482 EUVD-2026-119537GHSA-jhmg-9h4m-r2f5

OpenEMR before 8.4.0 Cross-Patient PHI Exfiltration via SMART Patient Launch

Published Nov 8, 2026 · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

OpenEMR before 8.4.0 contains an authorization bypass allowing low-privileged SMART standalone-launch users to bind arbitrary patient UUIDs into the OAuth token context. Attackers with only the patients|demo ACL can select a victim during authorization and read that patient's clinical notes and documents through patient-scoped DocumentReference and Binary FHIR endpoints.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
openemr openemr < 8.4.0 8.4.0

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