CVE-2018-5430 — Jasperreports Server
HIGHCVE-2018-5430 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) Path Traversal vulnerability in tibco jasperreports server. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-12-29) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
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…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-12-29. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2023-01-19.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2018-5430.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2018-5430 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 10–50% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
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.
Affected Products
jasperreports servertibcojaspersofttibcojaspersoft reporting and analyticstibcoResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
JasperReports - (Authenticated) File Read
by Hector Monsegur · May 3, 2018
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every tibco jasperreports server deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2018-5430 yet — track the tibco jasperreports server advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.