Vulnerability · Published Nov 10, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2025-12922OpenClinica Community Edition CRF Data Import ImportCRFData path traversal
Medium 6.3
In plain English
A medium-severity path traversal in Community Edition from OpenClinica. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 48% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability was found in OpenClinica Community Edition up to 3.12.2/3.13. This affects an unknown part of the file /ImportCRFData?action=confirm of the component CRF Data Import. Performing manipulation of the argument xml_file results in path traversal. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| OpenClinica | Community Edition | 3.03.13.23.33.43.53.63.7 |
Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
References
- VDB-331642 | OpenClinica Community Edition CRF Data Import ImportCRFData path traversal vdb-entry, technical-description
- VDB-331642 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA) signature, permissions-required
- Submit #680873 | OpenClinica OpenClinica Community Edition 3.13, Changeset 74f4df3481b6 (2017-02-28) and 3.12.2, Changeset 347dcfca3d17 (2016-11-21) Unrestricted Upload third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/mikecole-mg/security_findings/blob/main/openclinica/openclinica-rce.md related
- https://github.com/mikecole-mg/security_findings/blob/main/openclinica/openclinica-rce.md#raw-requests-abridged exploit