Symantec Enterprise Firewall / Gateway Security HTTP Proxy Internal IP Leakage Weakness

BID:17936

CVE-2006-2341 |

Info

Symantec Enterprise Firewall / Gateway Security HTTP Proxy Internal IP Leakage Weakness

Bugtraq ID: 17936
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 10 2006 12:00AM
Updated: May 15 2006 05:59PM
Credit: Bernhard Mueller discovered this issue.
Vulnerable: Symantec Gateway Security 5000 Series 3.0
Symantec Gateway Security 5000 Series 2.0.1
Symantec Enterprise Firewall 8.0
Not Vulnerable: Symantec Gateway Security 5000 Series 3.0.1
Symantec Gateway Security 1600 Appliance 3.0

Discussion

Symantec Enterprise Firewall / Gateway Security HTTP Proxy Internal IP Leakage Weakness



Symantec Enterprise Firewall and Gateway Security products are prone to an information-disclosure weakness.

The vendor has reported that the NAT/HTTP proxy component of the products may reveal the internal IP addresses of protected computers.

An attacker may use this information to carry out targeted attacks against a potentially vulnerable host.

Exploit / POC

Symantec Enterprise Firewall / Gateway Security HTTP Proxy Internal IP Leakage Weakness


This issue may be exploited with a web client.

The following proof-of-concept exploit is available:

Solution / Fix

Symantec Enterprise Firewall / Gateway Security HTTP Proxy Internal IP Leakage Weakness

Solution:

Symantec has released an advisory and fixes to address this issue. Please see the referenced vendor advisory for further information.


Symantec Gateway Security 5000 Series 3.0

Symantec Enterprise Firewall 8.0

References

Symantec Enterprise Firewall / Gateway Security HTTP Proxy Internal IP Leakage Weakness

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