CVE-2008-5328: IBM Rational Clearquest

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ClearQuest Maintenance Tool in IBM Rational ClearQuest before 7 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 during an import process.

Affected products

• IBM Rational Clearquest: up to and including 7.0.0.3; version 7.0.0.0 only; version 7.0.0.1 only; version 7.0.0.2 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.1.1 only; …

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