CVE-2017-16540

published 2017-11-04

CVE-2017-16540: OpenEMR before 5.0.0 Patch 5 allows unauthenticated remote database copying because setup.php exposes functionality for cloning an existing OpenEMR site to an…

Priority P3 51 high 7.5 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I N A N

EXPLOIT

OpenEMR before 5.0.0 Patch 5 allows unauthenticated remote database copying because setup.php exposes functionality for cloning an existing OpenEMR site to an arbitrary attacker-controlled MySQL server via vectors involving a crafted state parameter.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
open-emr	openemr	< 5.0.0	5.0.0

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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