Bold Reports Standalone Report Designer up to 14.1.11 File Upload path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Bold Reports Standalone Report Designer up to 14.1.11. The affected element is an unknown function of the component File Upload. This manipulation causes path traversal. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-65690. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Bold Reports Standalone Report Designer up to 14.1.11 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component File Upload. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Bold Reports Standalone Report Designer before 14.1.12 contains a missing filepath validation vulnerability in its file upload functionality that allows authenticated attackers to traverse outside the intended directory by supplying a crafted filename. Attackers can exploit this path traversal weakness to execute arbitrary commands with high privileges on the server.

The advisory is shared at boldreports.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-65690 since 07/22/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

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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