High severity · published Mar 25, 2025
CVE-2025-29789
OpenEMR Has Directory Traversal in Load Code feature
7.5
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 59% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
openemr · openemr
< 7.3.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-29789
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-29789
Patch
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/ef3bb7f84ebe8ef54d55416e587ec2fefd065489
Exploit
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-ffpq-2wqj-v8ff
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