OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Prior to version 8.0.0, an authorization bypass vulnerability in the patient portal signature endpoint allows authenticated portal users to upload and overwrite provider signatures by setting `type=admin-signature` and specifying any provider user ID. This could potentially lead to signature forgery on medical documents, legal compliance violations, and fraud. The issue occurs when portal users are allowed to modify provider signatures without proper authorization checks. Version 8.0.0 fixes the issue.
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Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:00:00 +0000
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| Description | OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Prior to version 8.0.0, an authorization bypass vulnerability in the patient portal signature endpoint allows authenticated portal users to upload and overwrite provider signatures by setting `type=admin-signature` and specifying any provider user ID. This could potentially lead to signature forgery on medical documents, legal compliance violations, and fraud. The issue occurs when portal users are allowed to modify provider signatures without proper authorization checks. Version 8.0.0 fixes the issue. | |
| Title | OpenEMR Portal Users Can Forge Provider Signatures | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-285 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-02-25T18:10:22.910Z
Reserved: 2026-01-27T19:35:20.528Z
Link: CVE-2026-24890
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-02-25T19:43:21.500
Modified: 2026-02-25T19:43:21.500
Link: CVE-2026-24890
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