CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-24849
6.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Prior to version 7.0.4, the `disposeDocument()` method in `EtherFaxActions.php` allows authenticated users to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem. Any authenticated user (regardless of privilege level) can exploit this vulnerability to read sensitive files. Version 7.0.4 patches the issue.
Affected configurations
• open-emr openemr (< 7.0.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/22f8e53e5769a88b7a16cb223bd197d044c84e5a Patch
- https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-w6vc-hx2x-48pc Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory