CVE-2016-9091
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…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 9.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Bluecoat ASG 6.6/CAS 1.3 - OS Command Injection (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 41785remote, linuxpublished 3 Apr 2017Verified
- Bluecoat ASG 6.6/CAS 1.3 - Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 41786local, linuxpublished 3 Apr 2017Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 41785 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 41786 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By symantec
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.6% · top 4.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
Symantec Corporation · Blue Coat ASG
- affected 6.6 prior to 6.6.5.4
Symantec Corporation · Blue Coat CAS
- affected 1.3 prior to 1.3.7.4
References
4
- 97372 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 41785 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 41786 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa138 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2016-9912 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2016-9091)Record last updated .