Check Point Advisories

mIRC URI Handler Remote Code Execution (CVE-2019-6453)

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
R81, R80, R77, R75

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.

Protection Overview

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.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the mIRC URI Handler Remote Code Execution (CVE-2019-6453) 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:  Instant Messenger.
Attack Information:  mIRC URI Handler Remote Code Execution (CVE-2019-6453)

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