CVE-2013-5959

HIGH 7.1CVE-2013-5959 · Published 28/09/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-5959 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.1) vulnerability affecting proxysgos (bluecoat).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 75.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
proxysgos bluecoat	`= 5.4`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

osvdb.org/97767
secunia.com/advisories/54991 · Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1029088
kb.bluecoat.com/index · Vendor Advisory

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