Vulnerability in Medhost Document Management System
CVE-2017-11693
MEDHOST Document Management System contains hard-coded credentials that are used for customer database access. An attacker with knowledge of the hard-coded credentials and the ability to communicate directly with the database may be able to obtain or modify sensitive patient and financial information. PostgreSQL is used as the Document Management System database. The account name is dms. The password is hard-coded throughout the application, and is the same across all installations. Customers do not have the option to change passwords. The dms account for PostgreSQL has access to the database schema for Document Management System.
EPSS: 0.010 (59.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.
Affected products
- Medhost Medhost_document_management_system
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2017-11693?
- CVE-2017-11693 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Medhost Document Management System, classified under Use of Hard-coded Credentials. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2017-07-28.
- How severe is CVE-2017-11693?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.