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Appointments Takeover via Excessive Data Exposure

High
alextselegidis published GHSA-4vmm-5qvc-w5p7 Jun 15, 2026

Package

easyappointments

Affected versions

>= 1.5.2

Patched versions

1.6.0

Description

Summary

An Excessive Data Exposure vulnerability in the customers search endpoint allows an authenticated user to obtain appointment hashes belonging to other users.
Using these hashes, an attacker can modify or delete appointments of other providers, resulting in an Appointments Takeover.

Details

The customers search endpoint exposes excessive information, including appointment hashes, to any authenticated user without proper authorization checks.
These hashes uniquely identify appointments that do not belong to the searching user.

By reusing the obtained hashes, an attacker can interact with appointment management endpoints, allowing the modification or deletion of third-party appointments.

The lack of object-level authorization controls leads to an Appointments Takeover, impacting data confidentiality and integrity.

Impact

This vulnerability allows an authenticated user to take control of appointments belonging to other users. By obtaining and reusing the exposed hashes, an attacker can view, modify, or delete appointments of other providers, compromising data integrity and confidentiality. This may result in unauthorized appointment cancellations or modifications, operational disruption of the service.

PoC

  1. Let's start by viewing an appointment with the provider “Jane Doe.”
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  1. Now, with the provider “test test” (another provider), let's send the request to /customers/search, where we can verify that the customer “Joe Shmoe” is on the list. This makes it possible to extract the hash of the appointment associated with the user Jane Doe, because the response is returning excessive data.
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  1. With this hash, we then go to the endpoint /calendar/reschedule/{hash} with the provider “test test,” where we can check some information about the appointment.
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  1. By changing the provider to “test test,” it is possible to change the appointment provider.
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  1. By saving, we can verify that the appointment is now in the “test test” provider, thus disappearing from the “John Doe” provider calendar.

Provider "test test" Calendar:

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Provider "John Doe" Calendar:

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5.1. Since we have takeover the appointment, it is possible to cancel/delete it.

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Recommendation

When making the POST request to the /customers/search endpoint, only return appointments that belong to the provider sending the request. This way, the provider does not have access to the random hash and cannot perform the takeover.

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2026-55651

Weaknesses

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Learn more on MITRE.

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