CVE-2019-14530

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 65.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-08-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

An issue was discovered in custom/ajax_download.php in OpenEMR before 5.0.2 via the fileName parameter. An attacker can download any file (that is readable by the user www-data) from server storage. If the requested file is writable for the www-data user and the directory /var/www/openemr/sites/default/documents/cqm_qrda/ exists, it will be deleted from server.

Affected products

openemr: before 5.0.2 — fixed in 5.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: openemr 5.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163215/OpenEMR-5.0.1.7-Path-Traversal.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163375/OpenEMR-5.0.1.7-Path-Traversal.html
https://github.com/Hacker5preme/Exploits/tree/main/CVE-2019-14530-Exploit
https://github.com/Wezery/CVE-2019-14530
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/pull/2592
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163215/OpenEMR-5.0.1.7-Path-Traversal.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163375/OpenEMR-5.0.1.7-Path-Traversal.html
https://github.com/Hacker5preme/Exploits/tree/main/CVE-2019-14530-Exploit
https://github.com/Wezery/CVE-2019-14530
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/pull/2592

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