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Penetration Testing: Re: watchguard firewall

Re: watchguard firewall

From: suntzu <oonix_at_unixfoo.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:06:55 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Penetration Testing wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, suntzu wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully obtained a single user mode status on a watchgaurd
> > firewall box?
>
> You would have your work cut out for you. Although they run a cut down
> linux operating system, I think it is pretty much butchered, and I would
> not be too surprised if there is no shell installed.

It really didnt look like it.
I hooked up a laptop to the console port and tried to boot into single
user mode but there was no such option that I was aware of.
 
> There is certainly no interactive login mechanism enabled by default. To
> break one, I am guessing that you would need to buffer overflow some of
> their firewalling code and then install your own listener and shell -
> maybe netcat and a statically compiled /bin/sh.
>
How would one initially setup the password from the console?

> Is there anybody on list who has pulled the flash disk out of a firebox
> and mounted it on another system?

I may be able too in a few weeks , since we sold them a new firewall and
that firewall is just lying around collecting dust.
I will keep the list posted if I do get to aquire this hardware. :)

I thank everyone for their taking time to respond.

-s
 
> Dave Taylor
>
>
>

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