Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2019-1614 |
Date Published: | 26 Dec 2019 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Thursday 26 December, 2019 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2019-6453 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | mIRC prior to version 7.55 |
Vulnerability Description | A remote code execution vulnerability exists in mIRC. The vulnerability is due to improper sanitization of user-supplied data which may be passed to the application as an option. Successful exploitation could result in code execution on the target machine in the context of the application. |
This protection detects 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.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Instant Messenger.
Attack Information: mIRC URI Handler Remote Code Execution (CVE-2019-6453)