CVE-2018-12408
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.X XML eXternal Entity Vulnerability
02 Description
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.X XML eXternal Entity Vulnerability
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-08-08 14:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 02:56Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-06-14
- Assigning CNA
- tibco
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-611Improper Restriction of XML External Entity ReferenceBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- bc9bc0ca0a4c7b69a5cba8d6f46530107125d704920f41e8b60a38d7b1cb9ea4
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.tibco.comhttps://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2018/08/tibco-security-advisory-august-7-2018-tibco-activematrix-businessworks
- www.tibco.comhttp://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories
- www.securityfocus.com105043http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105043
07 Remediation
TIBCO has released updated versions of the affected components which address these issues. For each affected system, update to the corresponding software versions: TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks versions 5.13.0 and below update to version 5.13.1 or higher, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks for z/Linux versions 5.13.0 and below update to version 5.13.1 or higher, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric versions 5.13.0 and below update to version 5.13.1 or higher.