CVE-2016-9091

high
Published 2017-04-05 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

Blue Coat Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) 6.6 before 6.6.5.4 and Content Analysis System (CAS) 1.3 before 1.3.7.4 are susceptible to an OS command injection vulnerability. An authenticated malicious administrator can execute arbitrary OS commands with elevated system privileges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
81%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-41785 remote linux verified
Chris Hebert ยท 2017-04-03

Bluecoat ASG 6.6/CAS 1.3 - OS Command Injection (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.
EDB-41786 local linux verified
Chris Hebert ยท 2017-04-03

Bluecoat ASG 6.6/CAS 1.3 - Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
bluecoatadvanced_secure_gateway{"endIncluding":"6.6.5.2"}
bluecoatcontent_analysis_system_software{"endIncluding":"1.3.7.3"}

References

CWEs

CWE-78

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.