TIBCO JasperReports Library Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

79.1% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (4 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.

Weakness

• The impact of this vulnerability includes the theoretical possibility that a web server using the provided DefaultWebResourceHandler could expose details of the host system. The disclosed data could include credentials to access other systems.
• CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs

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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 21 Oct 2025, 23:45 UTC.