Sensitive Data Exposure in Advantech Hospital Quening Management

Executive Summary

CVE-2026-14161 is a high-severity vulnerability in Advantech's Hospital Queuing Management (HQM) software versions prior to 1.2.13. It involves sensitive data exposure where unauthenticated remote attackers can access a specific URL to retrieve API documentation.

The vulnerability does not require any user interaction or privileges to exploit, making it accessible over the network.

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Impact Analysis

This vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to access sensitive API documentation, which could potentially expose internal system details.

Exposure of such information may aid attackers in crafting further attacks against the system or gaining unauthorized access to other parts of the network.

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Detection Guidance

This vulnerability involves unauthenticated remote access to a specific URL that exposes API documentation in Advantech's Hospital Queuing Management (HQM) software. Detection can be performed by attempting to access the known vulnerable URL on the target system to see if the API documentation is accessible without authentication.

A possible detection method is to use network scanning or HTTP request tools such as curl or wget to query the suspected URL endpoint on the HQM server.

• curl -I http://<target-ip-or-hostname>/<specific-vulnerable-url>
• wget --spider http://<target-ip-or-hostname>/<specific-vulnerable-url>

If the API documentation is returned without authentication, the system is vulnerable.

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Mitigation Strategies

The recommended immediate mitigation steps are to update the affected software components to versions that have fixed the vulnerability.

• Update Advantech Hospital Queuing Management (HQM) ISO to version 1.2.13 or later.
• Alternatively, update the QueueHttp.dll file to version 1.2.12.7 or later.

These updates prevent unauthenticated remote attackers from accessing sensitive API documentation.

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Compliance Impact

The vulnerability involves sensitive data exposure through unauthenticated remote access to API documentation in Advantech's Hospital Queuing Management software. Such exposure of sensitive data could potentially impact compliance with data protection regulations like GDPR and HIPAA, which require safeguarding sensitive information from unauthorized access.

However, the provided information does not explicitly describe the direct effects on compliance with these standards or regulations.

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