Check Point Firewall-1 4.0/4.1 SecuRemote information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Check Point Firewall-1 4.0/4.1. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component SecuRemote. This manipulation causes information disclosure. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2001-1303. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. This vulnerability is historically significant due to its background and the way it was received. It is advisable to implement restrictive firewalling.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Check Point Firewall-1 4.0/4.1 (Firewall Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component SecuRemote. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The default configuration of SecuRemote for Check Point Firewall-1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive configuration information for the protected network without authentication.

The weakness was shared 07/21/2001 by Haroon Meer with SensePost (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2001-1303. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/27/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue. Due to its background and reception, this vulnerability has a historic impact.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl and been published immediately after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10710 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 34007 (Check Point Secure Remote Unauthenticated Security Policy Download).

Proper firewalling of is able to address this issue.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (6857), Exploit-DB (21015), Tenable (10710), SecurityFocus (BID 3058†) and OSVDB (588†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 10710

OpenVAS ID: 10710
OpenVAS Name: Checkpoint SecuRemote information leakage
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01/01/2001 🔍
07/18/2001 +198 days 🔍
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07/21/2001 +3 days 🔍
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09/12/2002 +418 days 🔍
10/19/2003 +401 days 🔍
07/07/2014 +3914 days 🔍
09/27/2025 +4100 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: checkpoint.com

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Haroon Meer
Organization: SensePost
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2001-1303 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2001-1303
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-17029
X-Force: 6857
SecurityFocus: 3058 - Check Point Firewall-1 SecureRemote Network Information Leak Vulnerability
OSVDB: 588 - Check Point FireWall-1 SecuRemote Network Disclosure
Vulnerability Center: 2632 - Check Point Firewall-1 Leaks Sensitive Configuration Information, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 07/07/2014 14:56
Updated: 09/27/2025 06:46
Changes: 07/07/2014 14:56 (73), 05/16/2019 10:07 (1), 09/02/2024 08:49 (19), 09/27/2025 06:46 (4)
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