CVE-1999-1204 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Check Point Firewall-1 does not properly handle certain restricted keywords (e.g., Mail, auth, time) in user-defined objects, which could produce a rule with a default "ANY" address and result in access to more systems than intended by the administrator.

Published: 2002-03-09

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:checkpoint:firewall-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-1999-1185	Check Point Firewall-1 does not properly handle certain restricted keywords (e.g., Mail, auth, time) in user-defined objects, which could produce a rule with a default "ANY" address and result in access to more systems than intended by the administrator.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0057.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221101925912&w=2
http://www.checkpoint.com/techsupport/config/keywords.html
http://www.osvdb.org/4416
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7293

History

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Subscriptions

Checkpoint Firewall-1

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-03-09T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:02:53.810Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-1204

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1998-05-11T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-1999-1204

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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