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>> Check Point FireWall-1 PKI Web Service Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Title : Check Point FireWall-1 PKI Web Service Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2965
CVE ID : CVE-2006-3885
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-07-25


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A vulnerability has been identified in CheckPoint FireWall-1, which could be exploited by remote attackers to gain unauthorized access to arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the built-in web server (port 18264/tcp) when handling specially crafted HTTP requests containing encoded characters, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to access and read the contents of arbitrary files.

Affected Products

Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 NG with Application Intelligence (AI) R55W HFA2 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to Check Point FireWall-1 R55W HFA3 :
http://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/latest/hfa/index.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2965
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/16632

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Pete Foster

ChangeLog

2006-07-25 : Initial release

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