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A low-privileged Front Office user can request these pages with any patient_id and retrieve demographics, insurance data and vitals history.","severity":"high","cvss":7.1,"epss":null,"exploited":false,"exploited_at":null,"products":[{"name":"OpenEMR","fixed":[],"affected":"","ecosystem":"vendor"}],"ecosystems":["vendor"],"tags":["healthcare","openemr","other","php","self-hosted"],"not_affected_if":["no-front-office-users","openemr-8.5.0-or-later"],"how_to_check":"- Check the OpenEMR version in the installation; unknown whether the sources name a specific check command or file setting beyond the version.\n- Confirm whether the installed version is below `8.5.0`.","fix":"- OpenEMR: move to `8.5.0` or later (per the NVD description, fixed in versions before 8.5.0 are affected).","status":"open","published_at":"2026-11-13T10:17:56+00:00","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T10:47:25+00:00","triaged_at":"2026-11-13T10:52:59+00:00","updated_at":"2026-11-13T10:52:59+00:00","category":"other","confidence":0.7,"triage":{"at":"2026-11-13T10:52:59Z","model":"claude-haiku-5-5","output":{"fix":"- OpenEMR: move to `8.5.0` or later (per the NVD description, fixed in versions before 8.5.0 are affected).","reach":"network","title":"OpenEMR: low-privileged staff can read patient records they should not see","impact":"high","summary":"OpenEMR before 8.5.0 has a missing authorization check in print_referral.php and trend_form.php. 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