CVE-2016-6594
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedBlue Coat Advanced Secure Gateway 6.6, CacheFlow 3.4, ProxySG 6.5 and 6.6 allows remote attackers to bypass blocked requests, user authentication, and payload scanning.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceBlue Coat Advanced Secure Gateway, CacheFlow, and ProxySG products contain a vulnerability allowing remote attackers to bypass blocked requests, user authentication, and payload scanning mechanisms, effectively defeating the security gateway's core protective functions.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 6.6= 3.4= 6.5= 6.6CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify the installed Blue Coat productAccess the management console or CLI and determine whether the device is Advanced Secure Gateway, CacheFlow, or ProxySG. This is typically displayed on the main dashboard or via the 'show system' command.Affected if The device is any of these three product lines.
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Determine the product version numberLocate the version information in the management interface or via CLI. On ProxySG and ASG, this is often shown in the console header or obtainable via 'version' or 'show version' command. On CacheFlow, check the appliance management page or similar version command.Affected if The version is 6.5, 6.6 for ProxySG; 6.6 for Advanced Secure Gateway; or 3.4 for CacheFlow.
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Compare against affected version rangesMatch your identified product and version against the affected list: ProxySG versions 6.5 and 6.6, Advanced Secure Gateway version 6.6, and CacheFlow version 3.4.Affected if Your installed version exactly matches one of the affected versions listed.
If you are running ProxySG 6.5 or 6.6, Advanced Secure Gateway 6.6, or CacheFlow 3.4, your environment is affected by this vulnerability.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply vendor-supplied patches or upgrade to non-vulnerable versions of the affected Blue Coat products as specified in the official security advisory.
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- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2016-6594 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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