Vulnerability · Published Apr 6, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-40375
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 77% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
Apperta Foundation OpenEyes 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to view the sensitive information of patients without having the intended level of privilege. Despite OpenEyes returning a Forbidden error message, the contents of a patient's profile are still returned in the server response. This response can be read in an intercepting proxy or by viewing the page source. Sensitive information returned in responses includes patient PII and medication records or history.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://openeyes.apperta.org/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/DCKento/CVE-2021-40375 x_refsource_MISC