CVE-2026-40506: high-severity vulnerability in openemr
OpenEMR Path Traversal Arbitrary Directory Deletion via standard_tables_manage.php
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7epss 0.7%
OpenEMR before 8.2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the standard_tables_manage.php interface where the db GET parameter is passed without validation to temp_dir_cleanup(), which joins the value to the PHP temporary directory path and recursively deletes the resulting directory. Attackers can supply a traversal sequence in the db parameter to resolve outside the intended temporary directory, and by chaining this with an open redirect in dicom_frame.php, an unauthenticated attacker can deliver a crafted URL that triggers arbitrary recursive directory deletion within an authenticated Superuser's session.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
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References
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/2d8a69f0f343c8e8c6ee1b42d224c24a7a4ba415https://github.com/openemr/openemr/pull/11951https://github.com/openemr/openemr/releases/tag/v8_2_0https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-hj9x-33vw-5g3xhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openemr-path-traversal-arbitrary-directory-deletion-via-standard-tables-manage-php