CVE-2021-25920 (GCVE-0-2021-25920)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-22 19:29
Modified
2025-04-30 17:35
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Improper Access Control
Summary
In OpenEMR, versions v2.7.2-rc1 to 6.0.0 are vulnerable to Improper Access Control when creating a new user, which leads to a malicious user able to read and send sensitive messages on behalf of the victim user.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a openemr Version: 2.7.2-rc1, 2.7.2-rc2, 2.7.2, 2.7.3-rc1, 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.9.0, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.2.3, 4.1.2.6, 4.1.2.7, 4.2.0, 4.2.0.3, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5.0.0, 5.0.0.5, 5.0.0.6, 5.0.1, 5.0.1.1, 5.0.1.2, 5.0.1.3, 5.0.1.4, 5.0.1.5, 5.0.1.6, 5.0.1.7, 5.0.2, 5.0.2.1, 5.0.2.2, 5.0.2.3, 5.0.2.4, 6.0.0
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