What is CVE-2018-17180?

CVE-2018-17180 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Emr Openemr, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-05-17.

How severe is CVE-2018-17180?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Open-Emr Openemr

CVE-2018-17180

An issue was discovered in OpenEMR before 5.0.1 Patch 7. Directory Traversal exists via docid=../ to /portal/lib/download_template.php.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2019-05-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (78.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Open-Emr Openemr

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Patches (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/4963fe4932a0a4e1e982642226174e9931d09541 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-17180?: CVE-2018-17180 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Emr Openemr, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-05-17.
How severe is CVE-2018-17180?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.