CVE-2026-115573
Received Received - Intake

OpenEMR Privilege Escalation via Unauthorized Controller Access

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-115573, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-11-05

Last updated on: 2026-11-05

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Prior to 8.3.0, library/classes/Controller.class.php allows explicit controller.php dispatch to controllers missing from CONTROLLER_ACL_MAP, and checkControllerAcl() returns without enforcing any permission for those entries. A low-privilege authenticated user can invoke C_X12Partner::edit_action_process() to create or alter insurance-routing hosts and credentials, or invoke C_PatientFinder::find_action_process() to enumerate patient names, dates of birth, and identifiers. The shared fail-open dispatcher root cause also exposes other administrative controllers that were intended to be reached through ACL-gated Practice Settings routes. This issue is fixed in version 8.3.0.

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Published
2026-11-05
Last Modified
2026-11-05
Generated
2026-11-06
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Vendor Product Version / Range
openemr openemr < 8.3.0

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CWE-862 The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

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