This is a reminder for everybody to ensure they have fixed a recent critical security vulnerability. See the following page for details:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Critical_Security_Fix_for_CVE-2017-16540
This is a critical security vulnerability in OpenEMR before 5.0.0 Patch 5 . More details can be found here: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16540
In order to protect yourself from this vulnerability:
- If using OpenEMR 5.0.0:
- Update to the most recent patch and follow the instructions here: OpenEMR Patches
- To be extra safe, then remove the setup.php file from the openemr web directory (if you need this file in the future, then can download it at setup.php).
- If using OpenEMR 4.2.2 or lower:
- Remove the setup.php file from the openemr web directory.