CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-24621
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability was discovered in the htmlformentry (aka HTML Form Entry) module before 3.11.0 for OpenMRS. By leveraging path traversal, a malicious Velocity Template Language file could be written to a directory. This file could then be accessed and executed.
Affected configurations
• openmrs htmlformentry (< 3.11.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-htmlformentry/pull/178 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-uiframework/pull/59 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/HTML-730 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers Third Party Advisory
- https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/authenticated-remote-code-execution-openmrs Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-htmlformentry/pull/178 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-uiframework/pull/59 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/HTML-730 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers Third Party Advisory
- https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/authenticated-remote-code-execution-openmrs Exploit, Third Party Advisory