CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-36243
High (8.8) in open-emr openemr. EPSS 64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The Patient Portal of OpenEMR 5.0.2.1 is affected by a Command Injection vulnerability in /interface/main/backup.php. To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker can send a POST request that executes arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters.
Severity
- EPSS
- 64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-78
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- open-emr:openemr
References
- https://blog.sonarsource.com/openemr-5-0-2-1-command-injection-vulnerability
- https://community.open-emr.org/t/openemr-5-0-2-patch-5-has-been-released/15431
- https://community.sonarsource.com/t/openemr-5-0-2-1-command-injection-vulnerability-puts-health-records-at-risk/33592
- https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Patches
- https://blog.sonarsource.com/openemr-5-0-2-1-command-injection-vulnerability