What is the CVSS score of CVE-2013-5959?

CVE-2013-5959 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 7.1 (High). CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.7%.

Proxysg CVE-2013-5959

HIGH

Buffer Overflow (CWE-119)

2013-09-28 cve@mitre.org

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Proxysg Proxysgos Bluecoat

7.1

CVSS 2.0 · NVD

Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY

7.1 HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Lifecycle Timeline

CVE Published

Sep 28, 2013 - 19:55 cve.org

HIGH 7.1

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

AnalysisAI

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. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

Technical ContextAI

This vulnerability is classified as Buffer Overflow (CWE-119), which allows attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application. 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 include: Bluecoat Proxysgos, Bluecoat Proxysg. Version information: before 6.2.14.1.

RemediationAI

No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Use memory-safe languages or bounds-checking. Enable ASLR, DEP/NX, stack canaries. Use safe string functions.