A vulnerability has been identified in CheckPoint FireWall-1, which could be exploited by remote attackers to gain unauthorized access to arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the built-in web server (port 18264/tcp) when handling specially crafted HTTP requests containing encoded characters, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to access and read the contents of arbitrary files.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Pete Foster
ChangeLog
2006-07-25 : Initial release
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