CVE-2001-0940: Check Point Firewall-1

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the GUI authentication code of Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 Management Server 4.0 and 4.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long user name.

Affected products

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

Published 2001-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.