CVE-2018-18809
Medium 6.5 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- TIBCO JasperReports Library Directory Traversal Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- 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.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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6.5 (MEDIUM)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 79% (percentile: 100) as of 1 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-22
Affected products
tibco: jasperreports library; tibco: jasperreports server; tibco: jaspersoft; tibco: jaspersoft reporting and analytics
References
- http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2019/03/tibco-security-advisory-march-… Vendor Advisory
- http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2019/03/tibco-security-advisory-march-… Vendor Advisory
- https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2018-18809-tibco.html ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://security.elarlang.eu/cve-2018-18809-path-traversal-in-tibco-jaspersoft.… ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2018-18809-tibco.html ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://security.elarlang.eu/cve-2018-18809-path-traversal-in-tibco-jaspersoft.… ExploitThird Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154406/Tibco-JasperSoft-Path-Traversal.html Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/17 Mailing ListThird Party Advisory