CVE-2026-25164CWE-862

OpenEMR's Document and Insurance REST Endpoints Skip ACL

High · published February 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Prior to version 8.0.0, the REST API route table in `apis/routes/_rest_routes_standard.inc.php` does not call `RestConfig::request_authorization_check()` for the document and insurance routes. Other patient routes in the same file (e.g. encounters, patients/med) call it with the appropriate ACL. As a result, any valid API bearer token can access or modify every patient's documents and insurance data, regardless of the token’s OpenEMR ACLs—effectively exposing all document and insurance PHI to any authenticated API client. Version 8.0.0 patches the issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00276 · 18.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2026-02-25T18:22Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 FEB 18:22Z
    OpenEMR's Document and Insurance REST Endpoints Skip ACL
    cvelistv5