CVE-2018-17180 — An issue was discovered in OpenEMR before 5

An issue was discovered in OpenEMR before 5.0.1 Patch 7. Directory Traversal exists via docid=../ to /portal/lib/download_template.php.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in OpenEMR before 5.0.1 Patch 7. Directory Traversal exists via docid=../ to /portal/lib/download_template.php.

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: 2019-05-17T15:58:56.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:39:59.594Z

09References

• www.open-emr.org — https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Patches#5.0.1_Patch_.289.2F9.2F1…
• github.com — https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/4963fe4932a0a4e1e982642226174e9931d095…