CVE-2026-61344
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe Superior Court of California Hearing Reminder Service at https://www.hrs.courts.ca.gov exposes an API endpoint that returns court reminder records containing potentially sensitive information without authentication.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe Superior Court of California Hearing Reminder Service (hrs.courts.ca.gov) contains an API endpoint that returns court reminder records with potentially sensitive information without requiring any authentication. This allows any unauthenticated user to access confidential court-related data through the exposed API.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if you host the hearing reminder serviceCheck your environment for any service running on hrs.courts.ca.gov or any court hearing reminder service with API functionality. Search your web server logs for requests to hrs.courts.ca.gov and check your DNS records for this hostname.Affected if Your organization hosts or maintains the hearing reminder service at hrs.courts.ca.gov or a similar court hearing reminder system.
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Locate the API endpointReview your application routing configuration, API documentation, or web server logs to identify the API endpoint path that serves court reminder records. Common patterns include /api/reminders, /api/hearings, or similar REST endpoints.Affected if An API endpoint exists that serves court reminder data.
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Test endpoint without authenticationSend an HTTP GET request to the identified API endpoint using a tool like curl or a browser (e.g., curl -v https://[host]/api/reminders) without including any authentication headers, cookies, or API keys.Affected if The endpoint returns HTTP 200 OK and includes court reminder data without requiring any credentials.
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Verify sensitive data exposureExamine the API response payload for personally identifiable information (PII) such as case numbers, party names, hearing dates, or other confidential court-related data.Affected if The response contains sensitive court records that should require authorization to access.
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Check for other unprotected endpointsReview your API documentation or perform endpoint enumeration (checking common API paths like /api/v1/, /api/users, /api/cases) to identify any other endpoints that may lack authentication controls.Affected if Additional API endpoints are accessible without authentication.
You are affected if your organization hosts the hearing reminder service and its API endpoint returns court reminder records without requiring any authentication credentials.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement authentication and authorization controls on the API endpoint to ensure only authorized users can access court reminder records, and conduct an audit to identify any other unprotected endpoints.
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- Review / QA4.0 h
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