Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 24, 2009· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-5289
CVE-2007-5289
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
7cpe:2.3:a:hp:mercury_quality_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 5 more
- cpe:2.3:a:hp:mercury_quality_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=9.2
- cpe:2.3:a:hp:mercury_quality_center:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:hp:mercury_quality_center:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:hp:mercury_quality_center:8.2:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:hp:mercury_quality_center:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <=9.2
- cpe:2.3:a:hp:testdirector:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
8- secunia.com/advisories/34015nvdVendor Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/898865nvdUS Government Resource
- blogs.exposit.co.uk/2009/02/23/vulnerability-in-quality-center/nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/34046nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501177/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501219/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/33854nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48860nvd
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