With FireWall-1 Version 4.0 Checkpoint introduced support for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for user authentication. It looks like there's a bug in Checkpoint's ldap code which under certain circumstances can lead to unauthorized access to protected systems behind the firewall. A user can authenticate himself at the firewall providing a valid username and password. The firewall acts as a ldap client, validating the credentials by a directory server using the ldap protocol. After successful authentication access will be granted to systems protected by the firewall. In contrast to authentication using the Radius or SecurID protocol, after successful authentication the directory server can supply the firewall with additional ldap attributes for the user like the time and day of a week a user is allowed to login, the source addresses a user can run a client from, or the system behind the firewall a user is allowed to access. This can be done individual for each user....
With FireWall-1 Version 4.0 Checkpoint introduced support for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for user authentication. It looks like there's a bug in Checkpoint's ldap code which under certain circumstances can lead to unauthorized access to protected systems behind the firewall. A user can authenticate himself at the firewall providing a valid username and password. The firewall acts as a ldap client, validating the credentials by a directory server using the ldap protocol. After successful authentication access will be granted to systems protected by the firewall. In contrast to authentication using the Radius or SecurID protocol, after successful authentication the directory server can supply the firewall with additional ldap attributes for the user like the time and day of a week a user is allowed to login, the source addresses a user can run a client from, or the system behind the firewall a user is allowed to access. This can be done individual for each user. In general I think that's a great idea but it seems Checkpoint made something wrong interpreting the ldap attribute 'fw1allowed-dst' which is supposed to control in detail which protected network object a user can access. It seems this attribute is ignored by the firewall software, granting access to all protected network objects instead. Example: ------ Server 'Foo' | Internet --- FW-1 ---| | ------ Server 'Bar' Supposed there's a user 'Sid' with access only to Server 'Foo', and a second user 'Nancy' with access restricted to Server 'Bar', both controlled by the ldap protocol, using the ldap attribute 'fw1allowed-dst'. The bug will cause that both, Sid and Nancy, will have access to Foo and to Bar. [Quoted from the post by Olaf Selke with permission]
