CVE-2026-47663

Pathling: Typed CRUD/search/batch providers can lead to server-wide PHI exfiltration and cross-resource mutation

HIGH
8.7
CVSS Score
Published: August 7, 2026 at 08:26 PM UTC
Updated: October 23, 2026 at 08:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPathling

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Severity
HIGH8.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Pathling is a set of tools that make it easier to use FHIR and clinical terminology within health data analytics. Prior to version 2.0.0 of Pathling Server, Pathling's typed CRUD/search/batch FHIR surface allows an authenticated caller with only coarse operation authorities to act on attacker-chosen resource families because those entrypoints do not consistently enforce the documented per-resource `read` and `write` authorities. The documented authorization model requires an operation authority (e.g. `pathling:search`) to be paired with the matching per-resource `read` or `write` authority (e.g. `pathling:read:Patient`). Delete and batch are documented to require write authority for all referenced resource types. However, typed search, update, and related handlers are annotated only with `@OperationAccess(...)` and act on the provider-selected resource type without checking the corresponding per-resource authority. This is fixed in Pathling Server 2.0.0.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 2.0.0
Affected range stops below 2.0.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

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CVSS

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Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-285

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