Vulnerability · Published Sep 25, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-24621
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.1% (higher than 88% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)3.1%top 12.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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 products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-htmlformentry/pull/178 x_refsource_MISC
- https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/HTML-730 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-uiframework/pull/59 x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/authenticated-remote-code-execution-openmrs x_refsource_MISC