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CVE-2018-18809: TIBCO JasperReports Library Directory Traversal Vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-12-29
• EPSS: 79.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• TIBCO Jasperreports Library: through 6.4.21; through 6.7.0; 7.1.0, 7.2.0
• TIBCO JasperReports Server: through 6.4.3; 7.1.0
• TIBCO Jaspersoft: through 7.1.0
• TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting And Analytics: through 7.1.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154406/Tibco-JasperSoft-Path-Traversal.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/17
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107351
• http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories
• https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2018-18809-tibco.html
• https://security.elarlang.eu/cve-2018-18809-path-traversal-in-tibco-jaspersoft.html
• https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2019/03/tibco-security-advisory-march-6-2019-tibco-jasperreports-library-2018-18809
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154406/Tibco-JasperSoft-Path-Traversal.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/17
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107351
• http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories
• https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2018-18809-tibco.html

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