CVE-2008-1397 Business logic in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

Authenticated remote users can cause VPN tunnel outages and potentially intercept traffic by misconfiguring local IP addresses to match tunnel endpoints.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2008-1397?

CVE-2008-1397 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Mar 2008. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Check Point VPN-1 Power/UTM, with NGX R60 through R65 and NG AI R55 software, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (site-to-site VPN tunnel outage), and possibly intercept network traffic, by configuring the local RFC1918 IP address to be the same as one of this tunnel's endpoint RFC1918 IP addresses, and then using SecuRemote to connect to a network interface at the other endpoint.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1397?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Checkpoint Check Point Vpn-1 Pro, Checkpoint Vpn-1, Checkpoint Vpn-1 Firewall-1, Checkpoint Vpn-1 Power Utm, Checkpoint Vpn-1 Power Utm With Ngx.

How do I fix CVE-2008-1397?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1397 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2008-1397 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1397 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-rwxm-mv8x-336c.

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