CVE-2017-16540: Open-EMR Openemr

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenEMR before 5.0.0 Patch 5 allows unauthenticated remote database copying because setup.php exposes functionality for cloning an existing OpenEMR site to an arbitrary attacker-controlled MySQL server via vectors involving a crafted state parameter.

Affected products

• Open-EMR Openemr: before 5.0.0 (fixed in 5.0.0)

Published 2017-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.