CVE-2008-4515 describes a vulnerability in Blue Coat K9 Web Protection 4.0.230 Beta, where its reliance on client-side JavaScript for protection allows remote attackers to bypass authentication. Attackers can disable JavaScript to gain unauthorized access to summary, detail, overrides, and password email pages. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity with a network-based attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0.230CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:blue_coat_systems:k9_web_protection:4.0.230:beta:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.