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TI-2026-37297 Aliases CVE-2026-50576

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

Priority LOW 33CWE-113Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00493 42nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed ePA3-Service-OpenSource (fbeta-GmbH): 1.3.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
fbeta-GmbHePA3-Service-OpenSourcebefore 1.3.01.3.0Patch availableCNA
  • ePA3-Service-OpenSource Vendorfbeta-GmbH Affected before 1.3.0 Fixed in 1.3.0 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA ePA3-Service-OpenSource (fbeta-GmbH) Fixed in 1.3.0

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-50576

References

  • TI-2026-37843 ePA 3.x Integration: VAU Server Authentication Bypass via Circular Certificate Trust CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2026-37299 ePA 3.x Integration: TLS Certificate Verification Universally Disabled CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2026-37298 ePA 3.x Integration: AES-GCM Nonce Reuse via Frozen VAU Request Counter CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4

Sources

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