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medium 6.8

CVE-2026-50576 json

ePA 3.x Integration: HTTP Header Injection in VAU Inner Requests

published 5mo ago modified 20d ago also EUVD-2026-61054 , GHSA-j8jg-7fqf-4xx9

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository fbeta-GmbH/ePA3-Service-OpenSource. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
6.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ePA 3.x Integration implements the authorization workflow and writes Medical Information Objects to Germany's electronic patient record. Prior to 1.3.0, ePA 3.x Integration does not neutralize CRLF characters in values used by app/vau/VAUProtokoll.py to construct VAU inner HTTP requests. The build_inner_header function interpolates the uri, host, accept_type, content_type, content_length, USER_AGENT, and insurant_id values into request lines and headers, including x-useragent and x-insurantid. An authenticated attacker who controls a value can inject additional headers into the inner request. Depending on ePA server handling, an injected x-insurantid header can expose another patient's records, and injected Authorization headers can bypass the intended authentication or authorization context. Session-derived USER_AGENT input can also poison requests across the session. This issue is fixed in version 1.3.0.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected products

  • fbeta-GmbH ePA3-Service-OpenSource

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-113 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers

References

Sources

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The maintainers of fbeta-GmbH/ePA3-Service-OpenSource published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.