CVE-2007-0796 describes a heap corruption vulnerability in Blue Coat Systems WinProxy versions 6.1a and 6.0 r1c, and potentially earlier, triggered by a long HTTP CONNECT request. This flaw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service through a daemon crash, and could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bluecoat:winproxy:6.0:r1c:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bluecoat:winproxy:6.1:r1a:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
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.