Firewall vendors in 2024

Fortinet, Palo, Checkpoint, Cisco, Sonicwall ... is there any big firewall vendor that didn't have any critical vulnerabilities last year?

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M33@lemmy.sdf.org · 32 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Obsolete binaries not updated for years, hardcoded secrets… this is what you get in firewalls like any other piece of black box equipment.

lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de · 21 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Security by obscurity may work in delaying exploits, but once someone breaks the obscurity, they have a headstart on exploiting it over those hoping to fix it.

cron@feddit.org · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Security by old software, or how I call it: the ivanti approach

lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 1y

That makes me nervous, but I'm not allowed to tell you why

MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y

Yep. Closed source is for the software that no one would ever buy if they could read it.

cron@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And every service runs as root. This enables the CRL webserver to download /etc/shadow ...

M33@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 1y

Or user sessions persist on the filesystem so a glitch on the captive portal’s web server allow you to get clear text username and password for currently connected vpn sessions …

kolorafa@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Mikrotik & pfSense?

cron@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y

sounds correct

osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

pfsense technically shared the ssh server one i thought

deltapi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The last time I installed pfsense Ssh was disabled by default.

osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 1y

It is, but it's also the first thing I turn on when I install a new one.

CodeHead@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

firewalla?

pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online · 2 pts · 1y

Makes me glad I went with MikroTik for my home network.

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

No. And if there are any that say they didn't I don't believe them.

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Did nftables or ebpf have any critical zero days last year?

cron@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y

AFAIK not. This meme is targeted at commercial firewall appliances, that often have VPN/IPS/authentication and many other features that are exploited regularly.