OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Versions prior to 8.0.0.3 have a missing authorization check in `portal/sign/lib/show-signature.php` that allows any authenticated patient portal user to retrieve the drawn signature image of any staff member by supplying an arbitrary `user` value in the POST body. The companion write endpoint (`save-signature.php`) was already hardened against this same issue, but the read endpoint was not updated to match. Version 8.0.0.3 patches the issue.

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Description OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Versions prior to 8.0.0.3 have a missing authorization check in `portal/sign/lib/show-signature.php` that allows any authenticated patient portal user to retrieve the drawn signature image of any staff member by supplying an arbitrary `user` value in the POST body. The companion write endpoint (`save-signature.php`) was already hardened against this same issue, but the read endpoint was not updated to match. Version 8.0.0.3 patches the issue.
Title OpenEMR's Missing Authorization in show-signature.php Allows Portal Patients to Read Staff Signatures
Weaknesses CWE-639
CWE-862
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{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2026-03-25T23:41:51.601Z

Reserved: 2026-03-24T19:50:52.103Z

Link: CVE-2026-33934

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-26T00:16:40.290

Modified: 2026-03-26T00:16:40.290

Link: CVE-2026-33934

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