- 9.9CriticalCVSS base score
- 79.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 29 Dec 2022
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as TIBCO JasperReports Library Directory Traversal Vulnerability.
- Added
- 29 Dec 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 19 Jan 2023
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 29 Dec 2022.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
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Nuclei templates1 template
- TIBCO JasperReports Library - Directory Traversal (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2018/CVE-2018-18809.yamlSeverity medium
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By tibco
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| tibcoCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Critical9.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 79.1% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.9.
Affected products
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO JasperReports Library
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.3.4
- affected 6.4.1
- affected 6.4.2
- affected 6.4.21
- affected 7.1.0
- affected 7.2.0
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO JasperReports Library Community Edition
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.7.0
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO JasperReports Library for ActiveMatrix BPM
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.4.21
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO JasperReports Server
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.3.4
- affected 6.4.0
- affected 6.4.1
- affected 6.4.2
- affected 6.4.3
- affected 7.1.0
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO JasperReports Server Community Edition
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.4.3
- affected 7.1.0
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO JasperReports Server for ActiveMatrix BPM
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.4.3
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Jaspersoft for AWS with Multi-Tenancy
- affected unspecified – ≤ 7.1.0
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for AWS
- affected unspecified – ≤ 7.1.0
What to do
Solution: TIBCO has released updated versions of the affected components which address these issues. For each affected system, update to the corresponding software versions: TIBCO JasperReports Library versions 6.3.4 and below update to version 6.3.5 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Library versions 6.4.1, 6.4.2, and 6.4.21 update to version 6.4.22 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Library version 7.1.0 update to version 7.1.1 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Library version 7.2.0 update to version 7.2.1 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Library Community Edition versions 6.7.0 and below update to version 6.7.1 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Library for ActiveMatrix BPM versions 6.4.21 and below update to version 6.4.22 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Server versions 6.3.4 and below update to version 6.3.5 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Server versions 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, and 6.4.3 update to version 6.4.4 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Server version 7.1.0 update to version 7.1.1 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Server Community Edition versions 7.1.0 and below update to version 7.1.1 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Server for ActiveMatrix BPM versions 6.4.3 and below update to version 6.4.4 or higher TIBCO Jaspersoft for AWS with Multi-Tenancy versions 7.1.0 and below update to version 7.1.1 or higher TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for AWS versions 7.1.0 and below update to version 7.1.1 or higher
References
8
- http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2019/03/tibco-security-advisory-march-6-2019-tibco-jasperreports-library-2018-18809 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 107351 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20190909 CVE-2018-18809 Path traversal in Tibco JasperSoft (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154406/Tibco-JasperSoft-Path-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.elarlang.eu/cve-2018-18809-path-traversal-in-tibco-jaspersoft.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://cybersecurityworks.com/zerodays/cve-2018-18809-tibco.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-18809 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-10525 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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