CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1171

7.2 HIGH Published 2002-04-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-04-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Check Point Firewall-1 3.0b through 4.0 SP1 follows symlinks and creates a world-writable temporary .cpp file when compiling Policy rules, which could allow local users to gain privileges or modify the firewall policy.

Affected configurations

• checkpoint firewall-1 3.0b

References