Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-25920

Medium

Published: 22 March 2021

Published
22 March 2021
Modified
30 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 45.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-25920 is a medium-severity Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity (CWE-178) vulnerability in Open-Emr Openemr. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 45.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In OpenEMR, versions v2.7.2-rc1 to 6.0.0 are vulnerable to Improper Access Control when creating a new user, which leads to a malicious user able to read and send sensitive messages on behalf of the victim user.

CWE(s)
CWE-178

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

open-emr
openemr
2.7.2 — 6.0.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References