CVE-2008-1397
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 2.2% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1401)
- Published
- March 20, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1401 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- checkpoint / check point vpn-1 pro
- 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
References
- http://puresecurity.com.au/index.php?action=fullnews&id=5
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29394(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/992585(US Government Resource)
- http://www.puresecurity.com.au/files/PureSecurity%20VPN-1%20DoS_Spoofing%20Attack%20against%20VPN%20tunnels.pdf(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28299
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019666
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0953/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41260
- https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?solutionid=sk34579(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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