CVE-2017-5598

high

Published 2017-01-27 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

An issue was discovered in eClinicalWorks healow@work 8.0 build 8. This is a blind SQL injection within the EmployeePortalServlet, which can be exploited by un-authenticated users via an HTTP POST request and which can be used to dump database data out to a malicious server, using an out-of-band technique, such as select_loadfile(). The vulnerability affects the EmployeePortalServlet page and the following parameter: employer.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
eclinicalworks	patient_portal	`8.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.