CVE-2019-3963

published 2019-08-20

CVE-2019-3963: In OpenEMR 5.0.1 and earlier, controller.php contains a reflected XSS vulnerability in the patient_id parameter. This could allow an attacker to execute…

Priority P3 41 medium 6.1 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI R S C C L I L A N

In OpenEMR 5.0.1 and earlier, controller.php contains a reflected XSS vulnerability in the patient_id parameter. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of a user's session.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
open-emr	openemr	<= 5.0.1	—
open-emr	openemr	—	—

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

url http:///controller.php?document&clear_procedure_tag&patient_id=0">alert("XSS")&document_id=↗

path /controller.php↗

• → Monitor HTTP requests to controller.php for the patient_id parameter containing HTML injection characters such as '">' or script payloads, indicative of reflected XSS exploitation attempts. ↗
• → Look for GET requests to controller.php with query parameters including 'document', 'clear_procedure_tag', and a patient_id value containing angle brackets or quote characters. ↗

• · The vulnerability affects OpenEMR 5.0.1 and earlier; verify the installed version before applying detection rules to avoid false positives on patched instances. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 6.1 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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