Vulnerability Report

CVE-2026-24848

RCE

Title: Arbitrary File Write leading to RCE in OpenEMR

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2026-24848.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Mar 03, 2026

Modified Date Mar 04, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.7 CVSS v4.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.84%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2026-24848: 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.

Impacted Vendors

openemr 1

open-emr 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v4.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.7

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

N/A

RAW VECTOR

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.9