Medium severity · published Mar 19, 2026
CVE-2026-25928
OpenEMR Vulnerable to Path Traversal When Zipping DICOM Folders
6.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Prior to 8.0.0.2, the DICOM zip/export feature uses a user-supplied destination or path component when creating the zip file, without sanitizing path traversal sequences (e.g. `../`). An attacker with DICOM upload/export permission can write files outside the intended directory, potentially under the web root, leading to arbitrary file write and possibly remote code execution if PHP or other executable files can be written. Version 8.0.0.2 fixes the issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
openemr · openemr
< 8.0.0.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25928
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-25928
Patch
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/ddcf04ea769a33cdc1932355224575478df70585
Exploit
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-rppw-f689-6hrm
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