CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2020-28937 — Openclinic Project Openclinic security vulnerability
High
CVSS 7.5
OpenClinic version 0.8.2 is affected by a missing authentication vulnerability that allows unauthenticated users to access any patient's medical test results, possibly resulting in disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI) stored in the application, via a direct request for the /tests/ URI.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2020-12-03
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-306, CWE-425
Affected products
- openclinic_project / openclinic / 0.8.2
Matched remediation archetype
Authentication bypass and missing authentication
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Check exposure
- Map every affected endpoint and protocol path, including alternate ports, legacy routes, recovery flows, service accounts, and machine-to-machine access.
- Confirm which deployments enable the affected authentication mode and whether the interface is reachable from untrusted networks.
- Review session, token, credential, and proxy trust configuration without attempting account takeover.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and centralize fail-closed authentication before protected request handling.
- Remove default or embedded credentials, rotate affected secrets and sessions, and bind authentication decisions to the intended audience and channel.
- Add negative tests for alternate routes, malformed or absent credentials, recovery flows, and proxy-derived identity.
Authoritative sources
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