CVE-2007-5289

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

HP Mercury Quality Center (QC) 9.2 and earlier, and possibly TestDirector, relies on cached client-side scripts to implement "workflow" and decisions about the "capability" of a user, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted use of the Open Test Architecture (OTA) API, as demonstrated by modifying (1) common.tds, (2) defects.tds, (3) manrun.tds, (4) req.tds, (5) testlab.tds, or (6) testplan.tds in %tmp%\TD_80, and then setting the file's properties to read-only.

Affected products

HP Mercury Quality Center: through 9.2; 8.0, 8.2, 8.2-sp1, 9.0
HP Testdirector: all versions

References

http://blogs.exposit.co.uk/2009/02/23/vulnerability-in-quality-center/
http://secunia.com/advisories/34015
http://secunia.com/advisories/34046
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/898865
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501177/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501219/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33854
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48860
http://blogs.exposit.co.uk/2009/02/23/vulnerability-in-quality-center/
http://secunia.com/advisories/34015
http://secunia.com/advisories/34046
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/898865

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