TIBCO Rendezvous Vulnerable to CSRF Attacks
The Rendezvous Routing Daemon (rvrd), Rendezvous Secure Routing Daemon (rvrsd), Rendezvous Secure Daemon (rvsd), Rendezvous Cache (rvcache), and Rendezvous Daemon Manager (rvdm) components of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO Rendezvous Developer Edition, TIBCO Rendezvous for z/Linux, TIBCO Rendezvous for z/OS, TIBCO Rendezvous Network Server, TIBCO Substation ES contain vulnerabilities which may allow an attacker to perform cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. Affected releases are TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Rendezvous: versions up to and including 8.4.5, TIBCO Rendezvous Developer Edition: versions up to and including 8.4.5, TIBCO Rendezvous for z/Linux: versions up to and including 8.4.5, TIBCO Rendezvous for z/OS: versions up to and including 8.4.5, TIBCO Rendezvous Network Server: versions up to and including 1.1.2, and TIBCO Substation ES: versions up to and including 2.12.2.
- Published
- Nov 6, 2018
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.7% · 50th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-352
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Report tools
Action score
35
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.7%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 8.8
- CNA · tibco
- 7.5
- 1.3 point gap
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| tibco | rendezvous | cpe:2.3:a:tibco:rendezvous |
| tibco | rendezvous for z\/linux | cpe:2.3:a:tibco:rendezvous_for_z\/linux |
| tibco | rendezvous for z\/os | cpe:2.3:a:tibco:rendezvous_for_z\/os |
| tibco | rendezvous network server | cpe:2.3:a:tibco:rendezvous_network_server |
| tibco | substation es | cpe:2.3:a:tibco:substation_es |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- tibco rendezvousup to 8.4.5 inclusive
- tibco rendezvous for z/linuxup to 8.4.5 inclusive
- tibco rendezvous for z/osup to 8.4.5 inclusive
- tibco rendezvous network serverup to 1.1.2 inclusive
- tibco substation esup to 2.12.0 inclusive
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (tibco). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
TIBCO Software Inc. TIBCO Rendezvous
- unspecified and later · up to and including 8.4.5affected
TIBCO Software Inc. TIBCO Rendezvous Developer Edition
- unspecified and later · up to and including 8.4.5affected
TIBCO Software Inc. TIBCO Rendezvous for z/Linux
- unspecified and later · up to and including 8.4.5affected
TIBCO Software Inc. TIBCO Rendezvous for z/OS
- unspecified and later · up to and including 8.4.5affected
TIBCO Software Inc. TIBCO Rendezvous Network Server
- unspecified and later · up to and including 1.1.2affected
TIBCO Software Inc. TIBCO Substation ES
- unspecified and later · up to and including 2.12.2affected
Same product
tibco: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2007-4158Memory leak in TIBCO Rendezvous (RV) daemon (rvd) 7.5.2, 7.5.3 and 7.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consum32Monitor
- CVE-2021-28818TIBCO Rendezvous Windows Platform Artifact Search vulnerability31Monitor
- CVE-2021-28817TIBCO Rendezvous Windows Platform Installation vulnerability31Monitor
- CVE-2014-2543Buffer overflow in the Rendezvous Daemon (rvd), Rendezvous Routing Daemon (rvrd), Rendezvous Secure Daemon (rvsd), and Rendezvous Secure Rou31Monitor
- CVE-2007-4162TIBCO Rendezvous (RV) 7.5.2 does not protect confidentiality or integrity of inter-daemon communication, which allows remote attackers to ca31Monitor
- CVE-2011-0649Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in TIBCO Rendezvous 8.2.1 through 8.3.0, Enterprise Message Service (EMS) 5.1.0 through 6.0.0, Runtime 28Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- A user must open a link or visit a page.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Root cause
State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-352 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);Fixed
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Noroxi analysis
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We use this product, ask for helpChange log
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References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/105871
- www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories
- www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2018/11/tibco-security-advisory-november-6-2018-tibco-rendezvous
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.