Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-25471

High

Published: 03 March 2022

Published
03 March 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0130 80.2th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-25471 is a high-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Open-Emr Openemr. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 19.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability in OpenEMR 6.0.0 allows any authenticated attacker to access and modify unauthorized areas via a crafted POST request to /modules/zend_modules/public/Installer/register.

CWE(s)
CWE-639

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

open-emr
openemr
6.0.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

AC-24 Access Control Decisions
addresses: CWE-639

Per-request decision making makes it harder to bypass authorization using user-controlled keys without proper validation in the decision process.

AC-3 Access Enforcement
addresses: CWE-639

Consistent enforcement of approved authorizations makes bypassing via user-controlled keys ineffective.

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