CVE-ID

CVE-2001-1171

• CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20020315 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Proposed (20020315)
Votes (Legacy)
ACCEPT(1) Green
NOOP(5) Armstrong, Cole, Foat, Wall, Ziese
REJECT(2) Christey, Frech
Comments (Legacy)
 Frech> Both candidates assigned to XF:fw1-tmp-file-symlink(7094);
   CVE-2001-1171 has subset of references in CVE-201-1102.
 Christey> Agreed, it's a dupe.  CVE-2001-1102 will be preferred, since
   it has more complete references.

Proposed (Legacy)
20020315
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