CVE-2000-0779: Check Point Firewall-1

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Checkpoint Firewall-1 with the RSH/REXEC setting enabled allows remote attackers to bypass access restrictions and connect to a RSH/REXEC client via malformed connection requests.

Affected products

• Check Point Firewall-1: version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2000-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.