Medium severity · published Feb 25, 2026
CVE-2026-25929
OpenEMR Patient Picture Context Allows Arbitrary Patient Photo Retrieval
6.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 23% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
openemr · openemr
< 8.0.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25929
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-25929
Patch
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/fc4d00ecb63561dacd23cb1fed49c64bd1a83258
Exploit
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-778w-r8rm-8qhq
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