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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2009-4357

Medium
5/10

Summary

CQWeb (aka the web interface) in IBM Rational ClearQuest before 7.1.1 does not properly handle use of legacy URLs for automatic login, which might allow attackers to discover the passwords for user accounts via unspecified vectors.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published