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CVE-2015-4453

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—

interface/globals.php in OpenEMR 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.2.0 patch 2 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain sensitive information via an ignoreAuth=1 value to certain scripts, as demonstrated by (1) interface/fax/fax_dispatch_newpid.php and (2) interface/billing/sl_eob_search.php.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Open-emr — Openemr

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