CVE-1999-0770 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Check Point Firewall-1 versions 3.0, 3.1, and 4.0. The flaw allows an attacker to exhaust firewall resources by sending a high volume of non-SYN packets, causing the firewall to maintain long timeouts for these incomplete connections. With a low CVSS score of 2.1, this vulnerability is considered low severity, requiring local access for exploitation and resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, though a proof-of-concept exploit exists on ExploitDB, and it has garnered no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:checkpoint:firewall-1:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:checkpoint:firewall-1:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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