MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-124446 (CVSS 8.7)
NVD · officialPublished Nov 8, 2026Risk 37/100
OpenEMR before 8.3.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the FaxSMS module's RCFaxClient and SignalWireClient disposeDocument functions that allows authenticated low-privilege users to read and overwrite arbitrary files via the unsanitized file_path parameter. Attackers can request action=download to retrieve cleartext files like sqlconf.php database credentials and keys, or use action=setup to overwrite web-server-writable files with ciphertext.
Technical details
CVSS
8.7
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:LowUI:None
Evidence and sources
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