McAfee Firewall Reporter Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been identified in McAfee Firewall Reporter, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a design error within the "GernalUtilities.pm" script that checks for the existence of a particular file without verifying its contents while authenticating users, which could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to the application by pointing the "cgisess" cookie value to an arbitrary file that exists on the server.