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CVE-2021-37364
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2021-10-26 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-732
Description
OpenClinic GA 5.194.18 is affected by Insecure Permissions. By default the Authenticated Users group has the modify permission to openclinic folders/files. A low privilege account is able to rename mysqld.exe or tomcat8.exe files located in bin folders and replace with a malicious file that would connect back to an attacking computer giving system level privileges (nt authority\system) due to the service running as Local System. While a low privilege user is unable to restart the service through the application, a restart of the computer triggers the execution of the malicious file. The application also have unquoted service path issues.
Affected products
- OpenClinic GA: 5.194.18
References
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-clinic/
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-clinic/files/latest/download
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50448
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-clinic/
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-clinic/files/latest/download
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50448
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