By design, the "established" command on the Cisco PIX firewall allows connections from one host to arbitrary ports of a target host if an alternative conduit has already been allowed, which can cause administrators to configure less restrictive access controls than intended if they do not understand this functionality.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-1999-1563 By design, the "established" command on the Cisco PIX firewall allows connections from one host to arbitrary ports of a target host if an alternative conduit has already been allowed, which can cause administrators to configure less restrictive access controls than intended if they do not understand this functionality.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:18:07.659Z

Reserved: 2005-04-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-1999-1582

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 1998-07-15T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-1999-1582

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