Audit-trail evasion via omitted password-change events
Published May 23, 2025 · Updated May 23, 2025
Insufficient logging in OpenEMR before 7.0.3.4 allows remote authenticated users to change passwords without a specific audit record. The user-interface password-change workflow creates no visible Update event in the client-side log viewer, while the database records only a vague update that does not identify the action. Any administrator, and potentially any account permitted to change a password, can create this audit gap, hindering detection and forensic attribution without interrupting service.
Summary
What happened
Insufficient logging in OpenEMR before 7.0.3.4 allows remote authenticated users to change passwords without a specific audit record. The user-interface password-change workflow creates no visible Update event in the client-side log viewer, while the database records only a vague update that does not identify the action. Any administrator, and potentially any account permitted to change a password, can create this audit gap, hindering detection and forensic attribution without interrupting service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-32967
- Published
- May 23, 2025
- Updated
- May 23, 2025
- Vendor
- OpenEMR Foundation
- Product
- OpenEMR
- Classifications
- CWE-778
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 23, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 23, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=< 7.0.3.4
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Public exploit references
- OpenEMR password-change logging proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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