Checkpoint Firewall remote security assessment
In today's blog I will outline some steps aimed toward the inspection of the information Checkpoint Firewall exposes to an unauthenticated access. This remote gathering therefore assumes no internal information about the firewall - blackbox approach with only the IP address of the firewall known. In this particular case I had an IP address assigned to the firewall management interface (which will be exposed only internally in most of the cases). Below is the description of the steps, tools and approach I used in the assessment. I started the assessment by looking at the publicly available tools for either information gathering or exploiting the Checkpoint. Not much was found, but one of the tools that attracted my attention was a metasploit module found in auxiliary/gather/checkpoint_hostname. This module retrieves the names of the firewall enforcement module and its management server. One only needs to specify the IP address and the port of the Checkpoint. I found that seve...