CVE-2022-4506 — Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in GitHub repository openemr/ope

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in GitHub repository openemr/openemr prior to 7.0.0.2.

01What is this vulnerability?

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in GitHub repository openemr/openemr prior to 7.0.0.2.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
openemr	openemr/openemr	unspecified

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: 2022-12-15T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-14T18:01:51.787Z

09References

• huntr.dev — https://huntr.dev/bounties/f423d193-4ab0-4f03-ad90-25e4f02e7942
• github.com — https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/2e7678d812df167ea3c0756382408b670e8aa5…
• www.cve.org — https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4506