CVE-2018-18809
Published 2019-03-07 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source security@tibco.com
Summary
CVE-2018-18809 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in TIBCO JasperReports. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on December 29, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by January 19, 2023. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. TIBCO has 2 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 2 known-exploited TIBCO vulnerabilities →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.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: TIBCO — JasperReports
Name: TIBCO JasperReports Library Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-12-29 · Due: 2023-01-19
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
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

