CVE-2026-24848

OpenEMR Arbitrary File Write leading to Remote Code Execution

State: Published
Severity: 8.7 High
Published: Mar 3, 2026
Updated: Mar 4, 2026
Reserved: Jan 27, 2026

Description

OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. In 7.0.4 and earlier, the disposeDocument() method in EtherFaxActions.php allows authenticated users to write arbitrary content to arbitrary locations on the server filesystem. This vulnerability can be exploited to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) by uploading malicious PHP web shells.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.7 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
openemropenemr	<= 7.0.4Affected

References

https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-5vp5-4rm6-h4c9

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