Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ClearQuest Web in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1.x before 7.1.2.17, 8.0.0.x before 8.0.0.14,
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ClearQuest Web in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1.x before 7.1.2.17, 8.0.0.x before 8.0.0.14, and 8.0.1.x before 8.0.1.7 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that trigger a logout or insert XSS sequences.
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- Mar 24, 2015
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.9% · 58th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-352
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Report tools
Action score
27
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.9%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| ibm | rational clearquest | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:rational_clearquest |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- ibm rational clearquest7.1
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.0.1
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.0.2
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.1
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.1.1
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.1.2
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.1.3
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.1.4
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.1.5
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.1.6
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.1.7
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.1.8
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.1.9
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.2
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.2.1
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.2.10
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.2.11
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.2.12
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.2.13
- ibm rational clearquest7.1.2.14
Same product
ibm: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2012-0708Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ole API in the CQOle ActiveX control in cqole.dll in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1.1 before 7.1.1.9, 7.1.2 b46Plan
- CVE-2010-4601Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.0.x before 7.0.1.11, 7.1.1.x before 7.1.1.4, and 7.1.2.x before 7.1.2.1 al40Plan
- CVE-2011-1390SQL injection vulnerability in the Maintenance tool in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1.1.x before 7.1.1.9, 7.1.2.x before 7.1.2.6, and 8.x befor31Monitor
- CVE-2007-5090Unspecified vulnerability in IBM Rational ClearQuest (CQ), when a Microsoft SQL Server or an IBM DB2 database is used, allows attackers to c31Monitor
- CVE-2007-4368SQL injection vulnerability in /main in IBM Rational ClearQuest (CQ) Web 7.0.0.0-IFIX02 and 7.0.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbit31Monitor
- CVE-2010-2517Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in IBM Rational ClearQuest before 7.1.1.02 have unknown impact and attack vectors, as demonstrated by a30Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
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Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
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
The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
If successful
- Confidentiality
- P · data can be read
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- P · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- M
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
nvd-primary
Root cause
State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-352 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);Fixed
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.