CVE-2013-5959

high

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

https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA75

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029088

http://secunia.com/advisories/54991

http://osvdb.org/97767

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-09-28

Updated: 2013-10-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High