Security Issues with OpenMRS I was completely baffled by URLs breaking the UI after encoding and eclipse failing to connect to the remote server for debugging. Stuff played hide and seek with me last week. I worked on majorly one issue last week. …

Security issues with OpenMRS. Its been such an awesome coding week for some of us, though with that weird lifestyle, following the ECSR(Eat Code Sleep and Repeat) principle. I have been working majorly on three issues last week. …

Security issues project With OpenMRS I was assigned my first issue, “making OpenMRS cookie more secure” Well cookies are text files with small pieces of data — like a username and password — that are used to identify your computer as you use a computer network. Specific cookies known as…

Security issues with OpenMRS Project Title: Security Issues with OpenMRS Primary mentor: Isaac Sears Backup mentor: Sharif Magembe Student: Nsereko Joshua Reach Me: LinkedIn, Reddit Overview OpenMRS began collaborating with researchers from North Carolina State University (NCSU) to better secure the OpenMRS Reference Application. …

Security issues with OpenMRS Last week of 2021’s GSoC coding period. It even feels like the start. I honestly wish we hard more several months. Stuff had gotten more interesting. I worked on my last task last week, which was session management in OpenMRS. Refactored the CurrentUsers.java class to contain a java.util.Map class having a String and a a list of HttpSessions. This will allow us to end one and/or all sessions of the user depending on the current state of the system.

Security Issues with OpenMRS Last week, I started thinking of improving session management in our OMRS system. My major goal was to improve the password change mechanism so-that after a successful password change, all user sessions are invalidated and the user is redirected back to the login screen. This is…

Security Issues with OpenMRS I marine a scenario if a Nurse can create and/or delete a user in the system. This is definitely an authentication bypass because such privilege should only be owned by system administrators. I worked on three issues last week # Authentication bypass to administration functions. # Password…

Security Issues with OpenMRS Last week, it was generally a tools-down as we remembered the great contributor, mentor and developer, Kaweesi Joseph who passed on, on the 15th of July 2021, We loved him a lot, but God loved him more. I worked generally on one issue last week: #…

Security issues with OpenMRS Last week, I continued my work on CSRF issue from week 5. My anticipation of this issue is to finally configure spring security into core, make reference-application-module embrace the configuration and migrate this feature to any module in OpenMRS as need might rise. …