CVE-2018-17179

published 2019-05-17

CVE-2018-17179: An issue was discovered in OpenEMR before 5.0.1 Patch 7. There is SQL Injection in the make_task function in /interface/forms/eye_mag/php/taskman_functions.php…

Priority P2 65 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

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

EXPLOIT

An issue was discovered in OpenEMR before 5.0.1 Patch 7. There is SQL Injection in the make_task function in /interface/forms/eye_mag/php/taskman_functions.php via /interface/forms/eye_mag/taskman.php.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
open-emr	openemr	< 5.0.1.7	5.0.1.7

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path /interface/forms/eye_mag/php/taskman_functions.php↗

path /interface/forms/eye_mag/taskman.php↗

• → Monitor HTTP requests targeting /interface/forms/eye_mag/taskman.php for SQL injection patterns (e.g., quotes, UNION, boolean/time-based payloads) in parameters passed to the make_task function. ↗
• → The Metasploit auxiliary module openemr_sqli_dump targets OpenEMR 5.0.1 Patch 6 and lower; presence of this module in use can be identified by its characteristic SQLi dump behaviour extracting all tables (except log and task tables) to CSV loot files. ↗

• · Exploitation requires an authenticated session or access to the OpenEMR interface; scope of data exposure is the entire database excluding log and task tables. ↗
• · The vulnerability is fixed in OpenEMR 5.0.1 Patch 7 and later; systems running Patch 6 or lower remain vulnerable. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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