>> 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
Technical Description
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.
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