CVE-2015-4453

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

interface/globals.php in OpenEMR 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.2.0 patch 2 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain sensitive information via an ignoreAuth=1 value to certain scripts, as demonstrated by (1) interface/fax/fax_dispatch_newpid.php and (2) interface/billing/sl_eob_search.php.

Affected products

openemr: 2.8.3, 2.9.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 4.0.0 (+4)

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN22677713/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000092
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132368/OpenEMR-4.2.0-Authentication-Bypass.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/48
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Patches
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75299
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN22677713/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000092
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132368/OpenEMR-4.2.0-Authentication-Bypass.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/48
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Patches
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75299

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