CVE-2018-10572 — interface/patient_file/letter

interface/patient_file/letter.php in OpenEMR before 5.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via the newtemplatename and form_body parameters.

01What is this vulnerability?

interface/patient_file/letter.php in OpenEMR before 5.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via the newtemplatename and form_body parameters.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-04-30T17:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T07:39:07.839Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/699e3c2ef68545357cac714505df1419b8bf20…
• github.com — https://github.com/openemr/openemr/issues/1518
• www.open-emr.org — https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Features#Version_5.0.1
• github.com — https://github.com/openemr/openemr/pull/1519
• csticsfrontline.wordpress.com — https://csticsfrontline.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/openemr-%E5%BC%B1%E9%BB%9E%E5%8…