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CVE-2023-26221 — Tibco Spotfire Analyst security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5

The Spotfire Connectors component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s Spotfire Analyst, Spotfire Server, and Spotfire for AWS Marketplace contains an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows a low privileged attacker with read/write access to craft malicious Analyst files. A successful attack using this vulnerability requires human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s Spotfire Analyst: versions 12.3.0, 12.4.0, and 12.5.0, Spotfire Server: versions 12.3.0, 12.4.0, and 12.5.0, and Spotfire for AWS Marketplace: version 12.5.0.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5 (3.1)
Published
2023-11-08
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-522

Affected products

  • tibco / spotfire_analyst / 12.3.0
  • tibco / spotfire_analyst / 12.4.0
  • tibco / spotfire_analyst / 12.5.0
  • tibco / spotfire_analytics_platform / 12.5.0
  • tibco / spotfire_server / 12.3.0
  • tibco / spotfire_server / 12.4.0

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Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

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