OpenEMR before 8.5.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in four ZIP upload paths that read uncompressed entries into memory without size or ratio checks. Authenticated billing or Carecoordination users can upload highly compressed ZIP archives to exhaust PHP memory and worker pools, making OpenEMR unavailable.
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Fri, 13 Nov 2026 09:45:00 +0000

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Description OpenEMR before 8.5.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in four ZIP upload paths that read uncompressed entries into memory without size or ratio checks. Authenticated billing or Carecoordination users can upload highly compressed ZIP archives to exhaust PHP memory and worker pools, making OpenEMR unavailable.
Title OpenEMR before 8.5.0 Denial of Service via ZIP Upload Decompression
First Time appeared Open-emr
Open-emr openemr
Weaknesses CWE-409
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:open-emr:openemr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Open-emr
Open-emr openemr
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-13T15:55:59.971Z

Reserved: 2026-11-10T21:36:07.090Z

Link: CVE-2026-126423

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-11-13T10:17:48.363

Modified: 2026-11-13T16:18:27.520

Link: CVE-2026-126423

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