CVE-2013-5373: IBM Rational Clearcase

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The RemoteClient component in IBM Rational ClearCase 8.0.0.03 through 8.0.0.07, and 8.0.1, uses world-writable permissions for the rcleartool script, which allows local users to gain privileges by appending commands.

Affected products

• IBM Rational Clearcase: version 8.0.0.3 only; version 8.0.0.4 only; version 8.0.0.5 only; version 8.0.0.6 only; version 8.0.0.7 only; version 8.0.1 only

Published 2013-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.