HPSBGN02199 SSRT071312 rev.4 - Mercury Quality Center ActiveX, Remote Unauthorized Arbitrary Code Execution

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  • 18-Oct-2017
  • 18-Oct-2017

Summary

A potential security vulnerability has been identified with a Mercury Quality Center ActiveX control. The vulnerability could be exploited by a remote unauthorized user to execute arbitrary code on a Windows client running the ActiveX control.

Reference

SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN

Document ID: KM02992709 (c00901872)

Version: 4

HPSBGN02199 SSRT071312 rev.4 - Mercury Quality Center ActiveX, Remote Unauthorized Arbitrary Code Execution
NOTICE: The information in this Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible.

Release Date: 2007-03-13

Last Updated: 2012-06-22


Potential Security Impact: Remote unauthorized arbitrary code execution

Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE Product Security Response Team

VULNERABILITY SUMMARY

A potential security vulnerability has been identified with a Mercury Quality Center ActiveX control. The vulnerability could be exploited by a remote unauthorized user to execute arbitrary code on a Windows client running the ActiveX control.

References: IDEF1930, VU#589097, CVE-2007-1819

SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS*: ONLY impacted versions are listed.

Mercury Quality Center 8.2 Sp1 
Mercury Quality Center 9.0 

Running on Linux, Solaris, and Windows NT

BACKGROUND

CVSS 2.0 Base Metrics 
Reference
Base Vector
Base Score
CVE-2007-1819
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
9.3

Information on CVSS is documented in HP Customer Notice: HPSN-2008-002

The Hewlett-Packard Company thanks Will Dormann of CERT/CC, Eric Detoisien, and an anonymous researcher working with the iDefense Vulnerability Contributor Program for reporting this vulnerability to security-alert@hp.com.

RESOLUTION

HP has provided the following software patches to resolve this vulnerability.

Mercury Quality Center 8.2 Sp1 Patch 32 or subsequent

Mercury Quality Center 9.0 Patch 12.1 or subsequent

Quality Center patches are available here: http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/patches

HISTORY 
Version:1 (rev.1) - 27 Mar 2007 Initial release 
Version:2 (rev.2) - 19 June 2007 Modified acknowledgment to include Will Dormann of CERT/CC 
Version:3 (rev.3) - 20 June 2007 Correct version/rev mismatch 
Version:4 (rev.4) - 22 June 2012 - Removed old links to patches

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