SNS Vulnerability

OpenEMR "u" SQL Injection Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in OpenEMR, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "u" GET parameter to interface/login/validateUser.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 4.1.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
OpenEMR 4.x

Solution

Apply patch 4-1-0-Patch-5.

CVE

References

Level:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18274/
NS-12-001:
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/sql-injection-vulnerability-in-openemr/
OpenEMR:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Patches

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : block comment delimiters in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SQL statement in header	4.0.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2011-10-24

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote