Re: watchguard firewall

From: suntzu (oonixat_private)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 18:06:55 PDT

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    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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