What is CVE-2017-5598?

CVE-2017-5598 is a high-severity vulnerability in Eclinicalworks Patient Portal, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-01-27.

How severe is CVE-2017-5598?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Eclinicalworks Patient Portal

CVE-2017-5598

An issue was discovered in eClinicalWorks healow@work 8.0 build 8. This is a blind SQL injection within the EmployeePortalServlet, which can be exploited by un-authenticated users via an HTTP POST request and which can be used to dump database data out to a malicious server, using an out-of-band technique, such as select_loadfile(). The vulnerability affects the EmployeePortalServlet page and the following parameter: employer.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.011 (63.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Eclinicalworks Patient_portal — versions 8.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5598?: CVE-2017-5598 is a high-severity vulnerability in Eclinicalworks Patient Portal, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-01-27.
How severe is CVE-2017-5598?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.