Title: Pyramid BenHur Default Firewall Weakness
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Pyramid BenHur is a firewall appliance. It is based on Debian Linux using Linux kernel 2.2.x and ipchains firewalling capabilites.
A vulnerability has been reported for the BenHur device. Reportedly, the device has a weak default firewall configuration ruleset. It is possible for an attacker to connect to any port between 1024 and 65096 on the device provided the source port is TCP port 20. This is due to a poorly designed rule that was put in place to support FTP data connections.
Attackers may exploit this vulnerability to connect to potentially sensitive/vulnerable ports on the device such as the administration port (8888) or the the web proxy server.
Affected Products:
- Pyramid BenHur 0.0.0
- Pyramid BenHur Software Update 0.0.066
References:
- Pyramid: BenHur Product Page
- Pyramid: Pyramid Homepage
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