Privilege escalation in OpenEMR - #VU14287
Published: August 8, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14287
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenEMR
Affected software:
OpenEMR
OpenEMR
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper access controls. A remote attacker can visit http://host/ /ippf_upgrade.php. /ippf_upgrade.php, run an IPPF upgrade on a remote server. Upon visiting ippf_upgrade.php a user is prompted with a button that when pressed would begin to convert the databases to UTF8 (provided they aren’t encoded already).
Remediation
Update to version 5.0.1.4.