CVE-2018-18812
TIBCO Spotfire Fails To Prevent Write Access to Spotfire Library
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- tibco
Description
The Spotfire Library component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platform for AWS Marketplace, and TIBCO Spotfire Server contains a vulnerability that might theoretically fail to restrict users with read-only access from modifying files stored in the Spotfire Library, only when the Spotfire Library is configured to use external storage. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platform for AWS Marketplace versions up to and including 10.0.0, and TIBCO Spotfire Server versions up to and including 7.10.1; 7.11.0; 7.11.1; 7.12.0; 7.13.0; 7.14.0; 10.0.0.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| tibcoCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 33% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- The impact of this vulnerability includes the theoretical possibility that a user with read-only access to the Spotfire Library can modify files stored in the Library. With that capability, among other possibilities, an attack could undermine the integrity of analysis results.
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Affected products
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platform for AWS Marketplace
- affected unspecified – ≤ 10.0.0
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Spotfire Server versions
- affected unspecified – ≤ 7.10.1
- affected 7.11.0
- affected 7.11.1
- affected 7.12.0
- affected 7.13.0
- affected 7.14.0
- affected 10.0.0
What to do
Solution: TIBCO has released updated versions of the affected components which address these issues. In addition, we recommend that server administrators run the command line tool "check-external-library" to verify the consistency of the external storage. Please see the Spotfire Server Installation and Administration guide for further details. For each affected system, update to the corresponding software versions: TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platform for AWS Marketplace versions 10.0.0 and below update to version 10.0.1 or higher TIBCO Spotfire Server versions 7.10.1 and below update to version 7.10.2 or higher TIBCO Spotfire Server versions 7.11.0, and 7.11.1 update to version 7.11.2 or higher TIBCO Spotfire Server versions 7.12.0, 7.13.0, 7.14.0, and 10.0.0 update to version 10.0.1 or higher
References (3)
- 106635 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2019/01/tibco-security-advisory-january-16-2019-tibco-spotfire-2018-18812 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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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