Description
OpenReception's appointment booking software provides an end-to-end encrypted appointment booking platform. In versions 2.1.0 and prior, a returning client's six-digit booking PIN can be brute-forced online in the victim tenant. A successful guess yields the client's booking access token, granting access to that client's appointment tunnel, which holds their end-to-end-encrypted appointment data, and the ability to act as the client, for example adding or cancelling appointments in the tunnel. The bypass is cross-tenant: state owned by one tenant removes an authentication protection of a different tenant. This crossing of the tenant boundary is the basis for the scope-changed vector. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
Published: 2026-10-23
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: Unauthorized access to encrypted appointment data and client impersonation across tenants
Action: Assess Impact
AI Analysis

Impact

OpenReception appointment booking software encrypts all booking data, but in versions 2.1.0 and earlier a six‑digit PIN can be brute‑forced against the booking API. A successful guess returns a booking access token that grants complete access to the client’s encrypted appointment tunnel. The victim can view, modify, or delete appointments. Based on the description, it is inferred that the attacker can impersonate clients and manipulate the appointment data. The flaw is further amplified by a tenant boundary issue: brute‑forcing a PIN in one tenant inadvertently removes the PIN‑brute‑force throttle for the same physical identifier in another tenant, allowing an attacker to target a second tenant without needing to brute‑force that tenant’s PIN. This cross‑tenant state leakage expands the scope of the attack and turns a single‑tenant credential guess into an application‑wide privilege escalation. The weakness is a classic authentication bypass (CWE‑307).

Affected Systems

The software publisher, OpenReception, offers the open‑source appointment‑booking platform. The vulnerability affects all releases 2.1.0 and older. No official patch is published at the time of the advisory. Users running those versions are exposed.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score of 7.5 indicates a high‑severity vulnerability. There is no EPSS data, but the flaw relies on an online brute‑force attempt that can be performed from any network connection. The likely attack vector is an online brute‑force of the booking PIN from any network connection. Since the attack crosses tenant boundaries, a single compromised tenant can compromise all others, as inferred from the description. The vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, and no public exploit has been reported, but the lack of a protective throttle in other tenants makes it straightforward to maintain persistence. Administrators should treat this as a high‑risk issue until a patch is released.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on October 23, 2026 at 21:49 UTC.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Enable per‑tenant state isolation so that brute‑force throttles in one tenant do not affect others.
  • Restrict or disable the brute‑force PIN mechanism by configuring a longer, more secure PIN policy or turning off brute‑force protection altogether until a patch is available.
  • Audit all tenants for unauthenticated booking tokens and monitor for abnormal booking activity; consider rotating or invalidating existing tokens.
  • Apply any available patch once it is released.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on October 23, 2026 at 21:49 UTC.

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History

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Open-reception
Open-reception appointment-booking-software
Vendors & Products Open-reception
Open-reception appointment-booking-software

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description OpenReception's appointment booking software provides an end-to-end encrypted appointment booking platform. In versions 2.1.0 and prior, a returning client's six-digit booking PIN can be brute-forced online in the victim tenant. A successful guess yields the client's booking access token, granting access to that client's appointment tunnel, which holds their end-to-end-encrypted appointment data, and the ability to act as the client, for example adding or cancelling appointments in the tunnel. The bypass is cross-tenant: state owned by one tenant removes an authentication protection of a different tenant. This crossing of the tenant boundary is the basis for the scope-changed vector. At time of publication, there are no publicly available patches.
Title OpenReception: one tenant's throttle row disables the PIN brute-force throttle for the same identifier in other tenants
Weaknesses CWE-307
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N'}


Subscriptions

Open-reception Appointment-booking-software
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-23T20:29:17.174Z

Reserved: 2026-07-22T23:16:47.752Z

Link: CVE-2026-65825

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-23T21:17:24.870

Modified: 2026-10-23T21:17:24.870

Link: CVE-2026-65825

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Updated: 2026-10-23T22:45:14Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-307

    Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts