CVE-2018-5430
TIBCO JasperReports Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- tibco
Description
The Spring web flows 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 contain a vulnerability which may allow any authenticated user read-only access to the contents of the web application, including key configuration files. Affected releases include TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO JasperReports Server: versions up to and including 6.2.4; 6.3.0; 6.3.2; 6.3.3;6.4.0; 6.4.2, TIBCO JasperReports Server Community Edition: versions up to and including 6.4.2, TIBCO JasperReports Server for ActiveMatrix BPM: versions up to and including 6.4.2, TIBCO Jaspersoft for AWS with Multi-Tenancy: versions up to and including 6.4.2, TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for AWS: versions up to and including 6.4.2.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as TIBCO JasperReports Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability.
- Added
- 29 Dec 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 19 Jan 2023
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| tibcoCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 48.1% · top 1.1% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.7.
Weakness
- The impact includes the possible read-only access by authenticated users to web application configuration files that contain the credentials used by the server. Those credentials could then be used to affect external systems accessed by the JasperReports Server.
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
- CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs
Affected products
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO JasperReports Server
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.2.4
- affected 6.3.0
- affected 6.3.2
- affected 6.3.3
- affected 6.4.0
- affected 6.4.2
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO JasperReports Server Community Edition
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.4.2
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO JasperReports Server for ActiveMatrix BPM
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.4.2
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Jaspersoft for AWS with Multi-Tenancy
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.4.2
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for AWS
- affected unspecified – ≤ 6.4.2
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 6.2.4 and below update to version 6.2.5 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Server versions 6.3.0, 6.3.2, and 6.3.3 update to version 6.3.4 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Server versions 6.4.0 and 6.4.2 update to version 6.4.3 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Server Community Edition versions 6.4.2 and below update to version 6.4.3 or higher TIBCO JasperReports Server for ActiveMatrix BPM versions 6.4.2 and below update to version 6.4.3 or higher TIBCO Jaspersoft for AWS with Multi-Tenancy versions 6.4.2 and below update to version 6.4.3 or higher TIBCO Jaspersoft Reporting and Analytics for AWS versions 6.4.2 and below update to version 6.4.3 or higher
References (4)
- 44623 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/application-security/authenticated-file-read-vulnerability-in-jasperreports/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2018/04/tibco-security-advisory-april-17-2018-tibco-jasperreports-2018-5430 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-5430 (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)
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