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CVE-2007-5289· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

HP Mercury Quality Center (QC) 9.2 and earlier, and possibly TestDirector, relies on cached client-side scripts to implement "workflow" and

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.

HighCVSS 7.6 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Feb 24, 2009
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
8.7% · 95th percentile
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Action score

33

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.6 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
3 / 30 · 8.7%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
hpmercury quality center
hptestdirector

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • hp mercury quality centerup to 9.2 inclusive
  • hp mercury quality center8.0
  • hp mercury quality center8.2
  • hp mercury quality center9.0
  • hp testdirectorall versions

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2007-1819Stack-based buffer overflow in the SPIDERLib.Loader ActiveX control (Spider90.ocx) 9.1.0.4353 in TestDirector (TD) for Mercury Quality Cente
    49Plan
  • CVE-2007-1882qcbin/servlet/tdservlet/TDAPI_GeneralWebTreatment in HP Mercury Quality Center 9.0 build 9.1.0.4352 allows remote authenticated users to exe
    28Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
C · data can be read
Integrity
C · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
C · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
High
Confidentiality impact
C
Integrity impact
C
Availability impact
C

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-264 · Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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