THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-24621
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-24621

Htmlformentry vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability was discovered in the htmlformentry (aka HTML Form Entry) module before 3.11.0 for OpenMRS. By leveraging path traversal, a malicious Velocity Template Language file could be written to a directory. This file could then be accessed and executed.
Affected vendor
Openmrs
Affected product
Htmlformentry
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2020-09-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-24621

  • Confirm whether Openmrs Htmlformentry is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-24621.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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