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CVE-1999-1204

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1998-05-11 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• checkpoint Firewall-1: all versions

References

• 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
• 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

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