CVE-2001-1102: Check Point Firewall-1

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Check Point FireWall-1 3.0b through 4.1 for Solaris allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary policy files that end in a .cpp extension, which are set world-writable.

Affected products

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

Published 2001-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.