Vulnerability record · CVE-2007-5289 · published 24 February 2009

CVE-2007-5289: Hp mercury quality center permissions and access controls vulnerability

Hp · Mercury Quality Center

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.

7.6 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 8.7% · top 5.0% CWE-264 · Permissions and access controls

7.6CVSS 2.0 base score

8.7%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

2Affected product versions listed by NVD

16References

16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Mercury Quality Center Hp

Testdirector Hp

References

Link	Tags
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
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

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2007-5289), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.