CVE-2007-5289
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 8.7% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5269)
- Published
- February 24, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5269 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- hp / mercury quality center
- hp / mercury quality center
- hp / mercury quality center
- hp / mercury quality center
- hp / mercury quality center
- hp / testdirector
References
- http://blogs.exposit.co.uk/2009/02/23/vulnerability-in-quality-center/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34015(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34046
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/898865(US Government Resource)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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