CVE-2008-4515 (GCVE-0-2008-4515)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-09 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:17
VLAI
Summary
Blue Coat K9 Web Protection 4.0.230 Beta relies on client-side JavaScript as a protection mechanism, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and access the (1) summary, (2) detail, (3) overrides, and (4) pwemail pages by disabling JavaScript.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-10-04 00:00
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