CVE-2002-1623

medium Check Point
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
72.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: December 31, 2002 (8535 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Check Point
Source: NVD

Description

The design of the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol, when using Aggressive Mode for shared secret authentication, does not encrypt initiator or responder identities during negotiation, which may allow remote attackers to determine valid usernames by (1) monitoring responses before the password is supplied or (2) sniffing, as originally reported for FireWall-1 SecuRemote.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

checkpoint vpn-1 firewall-1

References

🔗 lists.grok.org.uk 🔗 marc.info 🔗 marc.info 🔗 www.checkpoint.com 🔗 www.kb.cert.org