CVE-2026-33934
OpenEMR's Missing Authorization in show-signature.php Allows Portal Patients to Read Staff Signatures
OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Versions prior to 8.0.0.3 have a missing authorization check in portal/sign/lib/show-signature.php that allows any authenticated patient portal user to retrieve the drawn signature image of any staff member by supplying an arbitrary user value in the POST body. The companion write endpoint (save-signature.php) was already hardened against this same issue, but the read endpoint was not updated to match. Version 8.0.0.3 patches the issue.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
4.3
OpenEMR's Missing Authorization in show-signature.php Allows Portal Patients to Read Staff Signatures
OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Versions prior to 8.0.0.3 have a missing authorization check in portal/sign/lib/show-signature.php that allows any authenticated patient portal user to retrieve the drawn signature image of any staff member by supplying an arbitrary user value in the POST body. The companion write endpoint (save-signature.php) was already hardened against this same issue, but the read endpoint was not updated to match. Version 8.0.0.3 patches the issue.
- Record
CVE-2026-33934- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-639, CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2026-16042
4.3
OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Versions prior to 8.0.0.3 have a missing authorization check in portal/sign/lib/show-signature.php that allows any authenticated patient portal user to retrieve the drawn signature image of any staff member by supplying an arbitrary user value in the POST body. The companion write endpoint (save-signature.php) was already hardened against this same issue, but the read endpoint was not updated to match. Version 8.0.0.3 patches the issue.
- Record
EUVD-2026-16042- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
4.3
OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Versions prior to 8.0.0.3 have a missing authorization check in portal/sign/lib/show-signature.php that allows any authenticated patient portal user to retrieve the drawn signature image of any staff member by supplying an arbitrary user value in the POST body. The companion write endpoint (save-signature.php) was already hardened against this same issue, but the read endpoint was not updated to match. Version 8.0.0.3 patches the issue.
- Record
CVE-2026-33934- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-639, CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
4.3
OpenEMR's Missing Authorization in show-signature.php Allows Portal Patients to Read Staff Signatures
OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Versions prior to 8.0.0.3 have a missing authorization check in portal/sign/lib/show-signature.php that allows any authenticated patient portal user to retrieve the drawn signature image of any staff member by supplying an arbitrary user value in the POST body. The companion write endpoint (save-signature.php) was already hardened against this same issue, but the read endpoint was not updated to match. Version 8.0.0.3 patches the issue.
- Record
CVE-2026-33934- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-639, CWE-862
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2026-33934 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Open-emr Openemr, published March 25, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.24%, the 15th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-w9w5-7x6h-657q
github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/ae7ee1872d2e6300b165e24687cc90cf6847a4e5
github.com/openemr/openemr/releases/tag/v8_0_0_3
github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/33xxx/CVE-2026-33934.json
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33934