High 7.5HealthcarePublished Feb 22, 2022

CVE-2022-23612Directory Traversal in OpenMRS Startup Filter

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 11:10 UTC)

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EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.93%, higher than 80% of scored CVEs.

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OpenMRS is a patient-based medical record system focusing on giving providers a free customizable electronic medical record system. Affected versions are subject to arbitrary file exfiltration due to failure to sanitize request when satisfying GET requests for `/images` & `/initfilter/scripts`. This can allow an attacker to access any file on a system running OpenMRS that is accessible to the user id OpenMRS is running under. Affected implementations should update to the latest patch version of OpenMRS Core for the minor version they use. These are: 2.1.5, 2.2.1, 2.3.5, 2.4.5 and 2.5.3. As a general rule, this vulnerability is already mitigated by Tomcat's URL normalization in Tomcat 7.0.28+. Users on older versions of Tomcat should consider upgrading their Tomcat instance as well as their OpenMRS instance.

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-22
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): 1.93% (percentile 80)
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Apr 22, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 12, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

openmrs openmrs-core openmrs:core (from the name)	from 1.6, < 2.1.5; from 2.2.0, < 2.2.1; from 2.3.0, < 2.3.5; from 2.4.0, < 2.4.5; from 2.5.0, < 2.5.3	CNA record
openmrs openmrs openmrs:openmrs	from 1.6 before 2.1.5; from 2.2.0 before 2.2.1; from 2.3.0 before 2.3.5; from 2.4.0 before 2.4.5; from 2.5.0 before 2.5.3	NVD

References

https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core/security/advisories/GHSA-8rgr-ww69-jv65x-refsource-confirm, exploit, patch, third-party-advisory
https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core/commit/db8454bf19a092a78d53ee4dba2af628b730a6e7#diff-7c64d9f61d4d4e2ddba92920d7cf63ec96091b308d43904956b3846bc0c26d80R128x-refsource-misc, patch, third-party-advisory
https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core/blob/ee3373a7a775bfdfa263e2e912c72e64342fb4f0/web/src/main/java/org/openmrs/web/filter/StartupFilter.java#L123x-refsource-misc, patch, third-party-advisory
https://lgtm.com/projects/g/openmrs/openmrs-core/snapshot/fb1335c925ca4c94be5a546707b90d2c1efa4dcc/files/web/src/main/java/org/openmrs/web/filter/StartupFilter.java#L123x-refsource-misc, patch, third-party-advisory

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