CVE-2008-5327: IBM Rational Clearquest

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ClearQuest Maintenance Tool in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7 before 7.1 stores the database password in cleartext in an object in a ClearQuest connection profile or export file, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by locating the password object within the object tree.

Affected products

• IBM Rational Clearquest: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.0.0 only; version 7.0.0.1 only; version 7.0.0.2 only; version 7.0.0.3 only; version 7.0.1 only; …

Published 2008-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.