CVE-2013-5959
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 1.5% (75th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-5790)
- Published
- September 28, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-5790 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- bluecoat / proxysg
- bluecoat / proxysgos
- bluecoat / proxysgos
- bluecoat / proxysgos
- bluecoat / proxysgos
- bluecoat / proxysgos
- bluecoat / proxysgos
- bluecoat / proxysgos
- bluecoat / proxysgos
Certified products that may be affected
3 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- ProxySG 8100 - Blue Coat® Systems, Inc. - FIPS 140 1222 - historical
- ProxySG 510 and ProxySG 810 - Blue Coat® Systems, Inc. - FIPS 140 1223 - historical
- Blue Coat ProxySG v5.3.1.9 Appliance Build Number 36410 running on the SG510, SG810, and SG8100 - Blue Coat Systems, Inc. - Common Criteria 383-4-93 - archived
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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