WatchGuard SOHO Firewall up to 5.0.34 IP Restrictions Filter privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in WatchGuard SOHO Firewall up to 5.0.34. It has been classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component IP Restrictions. This manipulation causes privileges management (Filter). This vulnerability appears as CVE-2002-0528. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in WatchGuard SOHO Firewall up to 5.0.34 (Firewall Software). It has been declared as very critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component IP Restrictions. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability (Filter). The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Watchguard SOHO firewall 5.0.35 unpredictably disables certain IP restrictions for customized services that were set before the administrator upgrades to 5.0.35, which could allow remote attackers to bypass the intended access control rules.

The weakness was presented 08/12/2002 by Peter Gründl (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at online.securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2002-0528. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/21/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 5.0.35 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (8814) and SecurityFocus (BID 4491†). See VDB-18582 for similar entry. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• WatchGuard

Name

• SOHO Firewall

Version

• 5.0.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2
• 5.0.3
• 5.0.4
• 5.0.5
• 5.0.6
• 5.0.7
• 5.0.8
• 5.0.9
• 5.0.10
• 5.0.11
• 5.0.12
• 5.0.13
• 5.0.14
• 5.0.15
• 5.0.16
• 5.0.17
• 5.0.18
• 5.0.19
• 5.0.20
• 5.0.21
• 5.0.22
• 5.0.23
• 5.0.24
• 5.0.25
• 5.0.26
• 5.0.27
• 5.0.28
• 5.0.29
• 5.0.30
• 5.0.31
• 5.0.32
• 5.0.33
• 5.0.34

License

• commercial

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