CVE-2013-5959 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Blue Coat ProxySG before 6.2.14.1, 6.3.x, 6.4.x, and 6.5 before 6.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and dropped connections) via a recursive href in an HTML page, which triggers a large number of HTTP RW pipeline pre-fetch requests.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00693.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Bluecoat Subscribe	Proxysg Subscribe Proxysgos Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

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	cpe:2.3:o:bluecoat:proxysg::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:bluecoat:proxysgos:5.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:bluecoat:proxysgos:5.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:bluecoat:proxysgos:6.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:bluecoat:proxysgos:6.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:bluecoat:proxysgos:6.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:bluecoat:proxysgos:6.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:bluecoat:proxysgos:6.5:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2013-5790	Blue Coat ProxySG before 6.2.14.1, 6.3.x, 6.4.x, and 6.5 before 6.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and dropped connections) via a recursive href in an HTML page, which triggers a large number of HTTP RW pipeline pre-fetch requests.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://osvdb.org/97767
http://secunia.com/advisories/54991
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029088
https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA75

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2013-09-28T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T17:29:41.650Z

Reserved: 2013-09-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-5959

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-09-28T19:55:03.243

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-5959

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-119

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