Check Point Advisories

Symantec Workspace Streaming XML-RPC Arbitrary File Upload - Ver2 (CVE-2014-1649)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-2380
Date Published: 28 Dec 2014
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 28 December, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2014-1649
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description An arbitrary file upload vulnerability has been reported in Symantec Workspace. The vulnerability is due to lack of access control validation in the functionality used to process XMLRPC requests. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by a sending specially crafted XML-RPC request to the server.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Symantec Workspace Streaming XML-RPC Arbitrary File Upload - Ver2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Security Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Symantec Workspace Streaming XML-RPC Arbitrary File Upload - Ver2

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