CVE-2016-2922

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-08-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-295

Description

IBM Rational ClearQuest 8.0 through 8.0.1.9 and 9.0 through 9.0.1.3 (CQ OSLC linkages, EmailRelay) fails to check the SSL certificate against the requested hostname. It is subject to a man-in-the-middle attack with an impersonating server observing all the data transmitted to the real server. IBM X-Force ID: 113353.

Affected products

IBM Rational ClearQuest: from 8.0.0.0 through 8.0.0.21; from 8.0.1.0 through 8.0.1.17; from 9.0.0.0 through 9.0.0.6; from 9.0.1.0 through 9.0.1.3

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113353
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10718377
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113353
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10718377

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