---
id: "CVE-2026-75525"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["CVE-2026-75525"]
title: "OpenReception: unauthenticated users can add encryption keys to staff directory"
severity: "medium"
cvss: 5.3
epss: 0.00194
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "package"
products: []
ecosystems: []
tags: ["appointment-booking", "healthcare", "openreception", "package", "self-hosted"]
not_affected_if: ["not-running-openreception", "patched-version"]
published_at: "2026-10-23T21:17:25+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-23T21:57:34+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-25T12:38:49+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "nvd", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75525", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-23T21:57:34+00:00"}, {"source": "epss", "url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-75525", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-25T12:38:49+00:00"}]
---

# OpenReception: unauthenticated users can add encryption keys to staff directory

OpenReception's appointment booking software, in versions 2.1.0 and earlier, lets an unauthenticated attacker store their own ML-KEM-768 public key under any existing staff user in any tenant. Future appointment data in that tenant is then encrypted to the attacker's key, so the attacker can read patient booking data.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## How to check

- Check whether the installed OpenReception version is `2.1.0` or earlier
- Look for the staff-crypto recipient directory endpoint in the deployment and confirm whether it accepts unauthenticated writes (unknown from sources)

## Fix

- No patched version is available at time of publication (unknown from sources)
- Restrict or block access to the staff recipient directory write endpoint at the proxy or firewall until a patch ships
- Rotate staff encryption keys and review recipient lists for keys that were not added by staff

## Timeline

- 2026-10-23T21:57:34+00:00 nvd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75525
- 2026-10-25T12:38:49+00:00 epss https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-75525

## From the sources

OpenReception's appointment booking software provides an end-to-end encrypted appointment booking platform. In versions 2.1.0 and prior, an unauthenticated attacker can store an arbitrary ML-KEM-768 public key under any existing user's identity in any tenant's staff-crypto recipient directory. The product's design guarantees that appointment data is end-to-end encrypted to staff members and that the staff recipient directory is not attacker-writable, so that even administrators and the operator cannot read patient data. This endpoint breaks that guarantee for an unauthenticated remote actor: it allows writing an arbitrary encryption recipient into the recipient directory of any tenant. The injected key receives the tunnel key of every appointment booked afterward in that tenant, because booking clients encrypt to all active staff keys. The attacker holds the corresponding secret key and is a persistent, unauthorized recipient of that key material. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.

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