How severe is CVE-2018-18809?

CVE-2018-18809 has a CVSS 3.0 base score of 9.9 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 79.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2018-18809: TIBCO JasperReports Library Directory Traversal

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

TIBCO JasperReports Library Directory Traversal Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-12-29

Remediation due

2023-01-19

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2019/03/tibco-security-advisory-march-6-2019-tibco-jasperreports-library-2018-18809; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18809

Description

The default server implementation of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO JasperReports Library, TIBCO JasperReports Library Community Edition, TIBCO JasperReports Library for ActiveMatrix BPM, TIBCO JasperReports Server, TIBCO JasperReports Server Community Edition, TIBCO JasperReports Server for ActiveMatrix BPM, TIBCO Jaspersoft for AWS with Multi-Tenancy, and TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for AWS contains a directory-traversal vulnerability that may theoretically allow web server users to access contents of the host system. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO JasperReports Library: versions up to and including 6.3.4; 6.4.1; 6.4.2; 6.4.21; 7.1.0; 7.2.0, TIBCO JasperReports Library Community Edition: versions up to and including 6.7.0, TIBCO JasperReports Library for ActiveMatrix BPM: versions up to and including 6.4.21, TIBCO JasperReports Server: versions up to and including 6.3.4; 6.4.0; 6.4.1; 6.4.2; 6.4.3; 7.1.0, TIBCO JasperReports Server Community Edition: versions up to and including 6.4.3; 7.1.0, TIBCO JasperReports Server for ActiveMatrix BPM: versions up to and including 6.4.3, TIBCO Jaspersoft for AWS with Multi-Tenancy: versions up to and including 7.1.0, TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for AWS: versions up to and including 7.1.0.

Severity

CVSS 3.0 · CNA9.9 CRITICAL

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
TIBCO Software Inc.	TIBCO JasperReports Library	unspecified to 6.3.4 6.4.1 6.4.2 6.4.21 7.1.0 7.2.0
TIBCO Software Inc.	TIBCO JasperReports Library Community Edition	unspecified to 6.7.0
TIBCO Software Inc.	TIBCO JasperReports Library for ActiveMatrix BPM	unspecified to 6.4.21
TIBCO Software Inc.	TIBCO JasperReports Server	unspecified to 6.3.4 6.4.0 6.4.1 6.4.2 6.4.3 7.1.0
TIBCO Software Inc.	TIBCO JasperReports Server Community Edition	unspecified to 6.4.3 7.1.0
TIBCO Software Inc.	TIBCO JasperReports Server for ActiveMatrix BPM	unspecified to 6.4.3
TIBCO Software Inc.	TIBCO Jaspersoft for AWS with Multi-Tenancy	unspecified to 7.1.0
TIBCO Software Inc.	TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for AWS	unspecified to 7.1.0

References

7 Links

Mailing lists

20190909 CVE-2018-18809 Path traversal in Tibco JasperSoft

Vulnerability databases

107351

Other references

Record Details

Published

2019-03-07

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

tibco

Credited to

TIBCO would like to extend its appreciation to Elar Lang of Clarified Security and Sathish Kumar Balakrishnan from Cyber Security Works Pvt Ltd for discovery of this vulnerability.

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