CVE-2018-18808
TIBCO JasperReports Server Privilege Escalation Via Race Condition
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- tibco
Description
The domain management component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s 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 race-condition vulnerability that may allow any users with domain save privileges to gain superuser privileges. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s 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 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, and TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for AWS: versions up to and including 7.1.0.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| tibcoCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- The impact of this vulnerability includes the theoretical possibility of gaining system admin access to the JasperReports Server process.
- CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-362 and its CVEs
Affected products
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 – ≤ 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 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 (3)
- 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-server-2018-18808 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 107350 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
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)
- FIRST EPSS (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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