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CVE-2018-18809

6.5, medium Known exploited

TIBCO JasperReports Library Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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CVSS
6.5, medium medium CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
79% higher than 99.5% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
7 Mar 20197 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 29 Dec 2022. US federal agencies had to remediate by 19 Jan 2023, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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.

Details

Vendor
TIBCO
Product
TIBCO JasperReports Library
Weakness
CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
security@tibco.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References 8

Exploit code 4

Advisories 3

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

Other TIBCO CVEs

Every TIBCO CVE we hold

Same vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.

  • CVE-2018-5430 TIBCO JasperReports Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability KEV EPSS 48% 8.8, high

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.