CVE-2014-8073 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in OpenMRS 2.1 Standalone Edition allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add a new user via a Save User action to admin/users/user.form

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in OpenMRS 2.1 Standalone Edition allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add a new user via a Save User action to admin/users/user.form

Published Oct 23, 2014

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.06%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in OpenMRS 2.1 Standalone Edition allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add a new user via a Save User action to admin/users/user.form.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.06% 0.01062

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01062

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.06% (0.01062)	63.35th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.06% (0.01062)	60.07th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.18% (0.00179)	37.21th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.39% (0.00389)	74.10th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.40% (0.00405)	73.04th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.40% (0.00405)	69.64th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (3)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128748/OpenMRS-2.1-Access-Bypass-XSS-CSRF.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70664
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97692
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128748/OpenMRS-2.1-Access-Bypass-XSS-CSRF.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70664		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97692		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 23, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Oct 9, 2014

Link CVE-2014-8073

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-8073

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-8073