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CVE-2001-1102

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Check Point FireWall-1 3.0b through 4.1 for Solaris allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary policy files that end in a .cpp extension, which are set world-writable.

Affected products

• checkpoint Firewall-1: 3.0, 4.0, 4.1, 4.1-sp1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/212824
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3300
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7094
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/212824
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3300
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7094

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