Some vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM Rational ClearQuest, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information and by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or conduct conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

2) An error when processing SQL connections can be exploited to disclose sensitive information.

3) Certain sensitive information is kept in password edit boxes, which can be exploited to disclose e.g. user and database passwords.

4) Certain sensitive information is stored unencrypted when editing a connection profile in the maintenance tool. This can be exploited to obtain e.g. the database password by accessing in-memory objects.

Solution
Update to version 7.1.
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Original Advisory
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK69316
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK30938
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK65908
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK38745

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