CVE-2001-1101

Severity

64%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

81%

The Log Viewer function in the Check Point FireWall-1 GUI for Solaris 3.0b through 4.1 SP2 does not check for the existence of '.log' files when saving files, which allows (1) remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files ending in '.log', or (2) local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

The Log Viewer function in the Check Point FireWall-1 GUI for Solaris 3.0b through 4.1 SP2 does not check for the existence of '.log' files when saving files, which allows (1) remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files ending in '.log', or (2) local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Checkpoint Firewall-1

First reported 23 years ago

2001-09-08 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

Checkpoint Firewall-1 3.0

3.0

Checkpoint Firewall-1 4.0

4.0

Checkpoint Firewall-1 4.1

4.1

Checkpoint Firewall-1 1 4.1 SP1

4.1

Checkpoint Firewall-1 1 4.1 SP2

4.1

References

20010908 Bug in remote GUI access in CheckPoint Firewall

Patch, Vendor Advisory

3303

Vendor Advisory

fw1-log-file-overwrite(7095)

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