HP Mercury Quality Center up to 8.0 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in HP Mercury Quality Center up to 8.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-5289. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in HP Mercury Quality Center up to 8.0. Affected is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was published 02/24/2009 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared for download at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-5289 since 10/09/2007. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 01/11/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (48860), SecurityFocus (BID 33854†) and Secunia (SA34015†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 10.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.5

VulDB Base Score: 10.0
VulDB Temp Score: 9.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

10/09/2007 🔍
02/23/2009 +503 days 🔍
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02/24/2009 +1 days 🔍
02/24/2009 +0 days 🔍
03/17/2015 +2212 days 🔍
01/11/2025 +3588 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: hp.com

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2007-5289 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-5289
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-46740
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X-Force: 48860 - HP Quality Center workflow scripts security bypass
SecurityFocus: 33854 - HP Quality Center Cached Workflow Scripts Security Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia: 34015 - HP Quality Center Cached Workflow Scripts Security Bypass, Less Critical

Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 01/11/2025 22:52
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (56), 12/03/2017 15:29 (1), 01/11/2025 22:52 (21)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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