CVE-2025-29789: OpenEMR Has Directory Traversal in Load Code feature

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-23

Description

OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Versions prior to 7.3.0 are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in the Load Code feature. Version 7.3.0 contains a patch for the issue.

Affected products

openemr: before 7.0.3 — fixed in 7.0.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: openemr 7.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/ef3bb7f84ebe8ef54d55416e587ec2fefd065489
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-ffpq-2wqj-v8ff

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