CVE-2016-2922: IBM Rational Clearquest

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Rational ClearQuest 8.0 through 8.0.1.9 and 9.0 through 9.0.1.3 (CQ OSLC linkages, EmailRelay) fails to check the SSL certificate against the requested hostname. It is subject to a man-in-the-middle attack with an impersonating server observing all the data transmitted to the real server. IBM X-Force ID: 113353.

Affected products

• IBM Rational Clearquest: from 8.0.0.0, up to and including 8.0.0.21; from 8.0.1.0, up to and including 8.0.1.17; from 9.0.0.0, up to and including 9.0.0.6; from 9.0.1.0, up to and including 9.0.1.3

Published 2018-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.