What is CVE-2018-17181?

CVE-2018-17181 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Open-Emr Openemr, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-05-17.

How severe is CVE-2018-17181?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Open-Emr Openemr

CVE-2018-17181

An issue was discovered in OpenEMR before 5.0.1 Patch 7. SQL Injection exists in the SaveAudit function in /portal/lib/paylib.php and the portalAudit function in /portal/lib/appsql.class.php.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (71.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 72nd percentile — 71.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Open-Emr Openemr

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

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-2018-17181?: CVE-2018-17181 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Open-Emr Openemr, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-05-17.
How severe is CVE-2018-17181?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.