ATGuard Personal Firewall Outgoing Connection Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

BID:4620

Info

ATGuard Personal Firewall Outgoing Connection Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4620
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Apr 29 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 29 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Discovered by BlueScreen <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: ATGuard ATGuard Personal Firewall 3.2
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

ATGuard Personal Firewall Outgoing Connection Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

An issue has been reported in ATGuard Personal Firewall. Reportedly, it is possible for a user to bypass the security restrictions of ATGuard.

This is achieved by renaming the restricted web application with an authorized application name.

For example, if icq.exe is a restricted service and, iexplore.exe is an authorized application. By renaming icq.exe to iexplore.exe, ATGuard will permit the use of the application.

It should be noted that ATGuard Firewall was acquired by Symantec, support for this product may no longer be available.

Exploit / POC

ATGuard Personal Firewall Outgoing Connection Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

No exploit code required.

Solution / Fix

ATGuard Personal Firewall Outgoing Connection Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

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ATGuard Personal Firewall Outgoing Connection Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

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