CVE-2001-1102 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Check Point FireWall-1 versions 3.0b through 4.1 on Solaris. Attackers can exploit a symlink race condition on world-writable temporary policy files ending in .cpp to overwrite arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with high attack complexity, but high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:checkpoint:firewall-1:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:checkpoint:firewall-1:4.1:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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