MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-124486 (CVSS 8.7)

NVD · officialPublished Nov 8, 2026Risk 37/100

OpenEMR before 8.3.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the classic document controller that allows low-privilege authenticated users to recategorize other patients' documents. Attackers can invoke move_action_process to move a document into a patients|demo category, then retrieve it with an empty patient_id to exfiltrate PHI and tamper with charts.

Technical details

CVSS

8.7

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:LowUI:None

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