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Vulnerability Assessment Details

CheckPoint Firewall-1 Telnet Client Authentication Detection

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Connects to FW1 Client Authentication Server

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

A CheckPoint Firewall-1 Client Authentication server is listening on
this port.

Description :

The CheckPoint Firewall-1 Client Authentication server is used to
authenticate a user via telnet. Once authenticated, the user can get more
rights on the network (ie: get access to hosts which were previously
blocked by the firewall).

Solution :

If you do not use this feature, disable it.

Network Security Threat Level:

None

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Tenable Network Security

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