CVE-2018-5434
XML eXternal Entity Expansion Vulnerabilities with TIBCO Runtime Agent
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- tibco
Description
The TIBCO Designer component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Runtime Agent, and TIBCO Runtime Agent for z/Linux contains vulnerabilities wherein a malicious user could perform XML external entity expansion (XXE) attacks to disclose host machine information. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Runtime Agent: versions up to and including 5.10.0, and TIBCO Runtime Agent for z/Linux: versions up to and including 5.9.1.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| tibcoCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Weakness
- The impact of the vulnerability includes the theoretical possibility of disclosing contents of files on the host machine that are accessible to the operating system account used to run the affected component.
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Affected products
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Runtime Agent
- affected unspecified – ≤ 5.10.0
TIBCO Software Inc. · TIBCO Runtime Agent for z/Linux
- affected unspecified – ≤ 5.9.1
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 Runtime Agent versions 5.10.0 and below update to version 5.10.1 or higher TIBCO Runtime Agent for z/Linux versions 5.9.1 and below update to version 5.10.1 or higher
References (2)
- 104454 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2018/06/security-advisory-june-12-2018-tibco-runtime-agent-2018-5434 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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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