OpenReception: WebAuthn passkey injection allows account takeover
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-287.
Summary
OpenReception's appointment booking software provides an end-to-end encrypted appointment booking platform. Prior to version 1.0.2, the registration handler at `POST /api/auth/register/{userId}` validates the relationship between the WebAuthn challenge and the registration cookie's email but never validates that the `userId` in the URL belongs to that email. An unauthenticated attacker requests a challenge for their own email, generates a registration response with their own authenticator, and submits it against any victim user's URL. The challenge-vs-cookie email match passes, the WebAuthn ceremony validates, and `addPasskey` writes the attacker's credential into the victim's `user_passkey` rows. The next victim-email login accepts a passkey assertion from the attacker's authenticator and issues a session as the victim. User IDs are not strictly secret on this platform, but the exact set of exposure surfaces should be assessed by the maintainers. Staff-list endpoints return user IDs to authenticated tenant members per the route signature; live verification of all exposure surfaces (whether user IDs leak through any unauthenticated route, through invite-confirmation URLs, or through other administrative views) is part of the pending live PoC. Where the attacker knows the victim's email and userId, the analysis below becomes account takeover. Version 1.0.2 fixes the issue.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| open-reception | appointment-booking-software | before 1.0.2 | 1.0.2 | Patch available | CNA |
- appointment-booking-software Vendoropen-reception Affected before 1.0.2 Fixed in 1.0.2 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA appointment-booking-software (open-reception) Fixed in 1.0.2
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-48087
References
More open-reception vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-35529 OpenReception vulnerable to unauthenticated staff crypto poisoning that breaks E2E recipient directory CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2026-35526 OpenReception has unauthenticated GLOBAL_ADMIN account creation post-bootstrap CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-35527 OpenReception: Tenant admin self-promotes to GLOBAL_ADMIN CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2026-79990 Host header poisoning in OpenReception enables account takeover CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.3
- TI-2026-35522 OpenReception vulnerable to stored click-triggered XSS via javascript: tenant links rendered into patient-facing footer CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2026-35521 Information disclosure in open-reception appointment-booking-software CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
Sources
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