Severity
Medium
Analysis Summary
The vulnerability is due to insufficient authentication of proxy connection requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious HTTPS CONNECT message to the Central Manager. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access public internet resources that would normally be blocked by corporate policies.
Impact
Security Bypass
Affected Vendors
Cisco
Affected Products
- Cisco WAAS (Wide Area Application Services) 5.x
- Cisco WAAS (Wide Area Application Services) 6.x
Remediation
Please see vendor’s advisory for more details as the bug report CSCvo13639 indicates a fixed status.

