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CVE-2013-5959

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-09-28 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• Bluecoat Proxysg: through 5.3
• Bluecoat Proxysgos: 5.4, 5.3, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 (+2)

References

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

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