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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-4085 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in BlueCoat (a) WinProxy before 6.1a and (b) the web console access functionality in ProxyAV before 2.4.2.3 allows remote a…

published 2005-12-31 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-4080

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
65.9%
EPSS 65.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.2%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in BlueCoat (a) WinProxy before 6.1a and (b) the web console access functionality in ProxyAV before 2.4.2.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long Host: header.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/proxy/bluecoat_winproxy_host)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

65.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.