Bold Reports Standalone Report Designer up to 14.1.11 Font Processing path traversal

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Bold Reports Standalone Report Designer up to 14.1.11. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Font Processing. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-65688. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Bold Reports Standalone Report Designer up to 14.1.11. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Font Processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Bold Reports Standalone Report Designer before 14.1.12 contains a missing filepath validation vulnerability in its font processing feature that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem by supplying a crafted request. Attackers can exploit this path traversal weakness to disclose sensitive server files, including authentication credentials, enabling full unauthorized access to the application.

It is possible to read the advisory at boldreports.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-65688 since 07/22/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 14.1.12 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Reporting Software

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• Bold Reports

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• Standalone Report Designer

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• 14.1.0
• 14.1.1
• 14.1.2
• 14.1.3
• 14.1.4
• 14.1.5
• 14.1.6
• 14.1.7
• 14.1.8
• 14.1.9
• 14.1.10
• 14.1.11

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