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CVE-2026-25929: OpenEMR Patient Picture Context Allows Arbitrary Patient Photo Retrieval

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-02-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Prior to version 8.0.0, the document controller’s `patient_picture` context serves the patient’s photo by document ID or patient ID without verifying that the current user is authorized to access that patient. An authenticated user with document ACL can supply another patient’s ID and retrieve their photo. Version 8.0.0 fixes the issue.

Affected products

• openemr: before 8.0.0 — fixed in 8.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: openemr 8.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/fc4d00ecb63561dacd23cb1fed49c64bd1a83258
• https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-778w-r8rm-8qhq

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