3Com SuperStack 3 Firewall filter bypass

3com-superstack-filter-bypass (11472) The risk level is classified as MediumMedium Risk

Description:

3Com SuperStack 3 Firewall could allow a remote attacker to bypass filtering and view malicious Web content, caused by a vulnerability in the 3Com SuperStack 3 Web Site Filter, which is an optional Web content filtering feature of the 3Com SuperStack 3 Firewall. A remote attacker could connect to a blocked Web site on port 80 using Telnet and issue a specially-crafted HTTP GET request to bypass content filtering and view unauthorized Web content.


Consequences:

Bypass Security

Remedy:

No remedy available as of February 6, 2010.

References:

Platforms Affected:

  • 3Com SuperStack 3 Firewall

Reported:

Mar 04, 2003

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