CVE-2001-1101 in Firewall-1

Summary

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.

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• Disclosure: 09/08/2001
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-17332 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-269 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.4
• EPSS: 0.00638
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2001-1101
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-1101
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2001-1101/