CVE-2026-1550
Published: 28 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-1550 is a medium-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266) vulnerability in Phpgurukul Hospital Management System. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 5.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Documented procedures facilitate correct implementation and ongoing management of authorization decisions.
Periodic reviews identify and correct flaws in authorization decisions or enforcement.
Specifying access authorizations for each account and requiring approvals for account requests enforces proper authorization decisions.
The control requires explicit definition of separated access authorizations, making incorrect privilege assignments that bundle conflicting duties harder to implement.
Ensures privileges are assigned only as necessary rather than incorrectly over-granted.
The control's documentation requirement reduces improper authorization by ensuring only mission-justified actions bypass authentication.
Establishing permitted attributes and values, plus auditing changes, ensures authorization decisions are based on correctly managed policy data.
Explicitly mandates authorizing remote access types before permitting connections, directly mitigating improper authorization.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Improper authorization (CWE-285/266) in a web app admin component directly enables remote exploitation of a public-facing application (T1190) and abuse for unauthorized privilege escalation (T1068) from low-privileged accounts.
NVD Description
A security flaw has been discovered in PHPGurukul Hospital Management System 1.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /hms/hospital/docappsystem/adminviews.py of the component Admin Dashboard Page. Performing a manipulation results in improper authorization. Remote exploitation of…
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the attack is possible. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2026-1550 is an improper authorization vulnerability (CWE-266, CWE-285) in PHPGurukul Hospital Management System 1.0. The issue affects an unknown functionality in the file /hms/hospital/docappsystem/adminviews.py within the Admin Dashboard Page component. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) and was published on 2026-01-28.
Remote attackers with low privileges, such as authenticated users, can exploit this vulnerability by manipulating the affected component to bypass authorization controls. Successful exploitation enables limited impacts, including low-level disclosure of confidential information, modification of data, and denial of service affecting availability.
References include a GitHub repository at https://github.com/rsecroot/Hospital-Management-System/blob/main/Broken%20Access%20Control.md detailing the broken access control issue, the vendor site at https://phpgurukul.com/, and VulDB entries at https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.343246, https://vuldb.com/?id.343246, and https://vuldb.com/?submit.739837. These sources do not specify patches or mitigations in the available details.
The exploit has been publicly released, enabling potential real-world attacks against exposed deployments of this system.
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