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Certification Report
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. R80.30 Firmware
for Security Gateway Appliances with Firewall, IPS Blade
Pattern Matcher, and Security Management Server
Sponsor and developer: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Shlomo Kaplan St 5
Tel Aviv-Yafo
Israel
Evaluation facility: Brightsight
Brassersplein 2
2612 CT Delft
The Netherlands
Report number: NSCIB-CC-0046947-CR
Report version: 1
Project number: 0046947
Author(s): Kjartan Jæger Kvassnes
Date: 23 December 2019
Number of pages: 11
Number of appendices: 0
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CONTENTS:
Foreword 3
Recognition of the certificate 4
International recognition 4
European recognition 4
1 Executive Summary 5
2 Certification Results 6
2.1 Identification of Target of Evaluation 6
2.2 Security Policy 6
2.3 Assumptions and Clarification of Scope 6
2.4 Architectural Information 7
2.5 Documentation 7
2.6 IT Product Testing 7
2.7 Evaluated Configuration 9
2.8 Results of the Evaluation 9
2.9 Comments/Recommendations 9
3 Security Target 10
4 Definitions 10
5 Bibliography 11
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Foreword
The Netherlands Scheme for Certification in the Area of IT Security (NSCIB) provides a third-party
evaluation and certification service for determining the trustworthiness of Information Technology (IT)
security products. Under this NSCIB, TÜV Rheinland Nederland B.V. has the task of issuing
certificates for IT security products, as well as for protection profiles and sites.
Part of the procedure is the technical examination (evaluation) of the product, protection profile or site
according to the Common Criteria assessment guidelines published by the NSCIB. Evaluations are
performed by an IT Security Evaluation Facility (ITSEF) under the oversight of the NSCIB Certification
Body, which is operated by TÜV Rheinland Nederland B.V. in cooperation with the Ministry of the
Interior and Kingdom Relations.
An ITSEF in the Netherlands is a commercial facility that has been licensed by TÜV Rheinland
Nederland B.V. to perform Common Criteria evaluations; a significant requirement for such a license is
accreditation to the requirements of ISO Standard 17025 “General requirements for the accreditation
of calibration and testing laboratories”.
By awarding a Common Criteria certificate, TÜV Rheinland Nederland B.V. asserts that the product or
site complies with the security requirements specified in the associated (site) security target, or that
the protection profile (PP) complies with the requirements for PP evaluation specified in the Common
Criteria for Information Security Evaluation. A (site) security target is a requirements specification
document that defines the scope of the evaluation activities.
The consumer should review the (site) security target or protection profile, in addition to this
certification report, in order to gain an understanding of any assumptions made during the evaluation,
the IT product's intended environment, its security requirements, and the level of confidence (i.e., the
evaluation assurance level) that the product or site satisfies the security requirements stated in the
(site) security target.
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Recognition of the certificate
Presence of the Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement and SOG-IS logos on the certificate
indicates that this certificate is issued in accordance with the provisions of the CCRA and the SOG-IS
agreement and will be recognised by the participating nations.
International recognition
The CCRA has been signed by the Netherlands in May 2000 and provides mutual recognition of
certificates based on the CC. Starting September 2014 the CCRA has been updated to provide mutual
recognition of certificates based on cPPs (exact use) or STs with evaluation assurance components
up to and including EAL2+ALC_FLR. The current list of signatory nations and approved certification
schemes can be found on: http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org.
European recognition
The European SOGIS-Mutual Recognition Agreement (SOGIS-MRA) version 3 effective from April
2010 provides mutual recognition of Common Criteria and ITSEC certificates at a basic evaluation
level for all products. A higher recognition level for evaluation levels beyond EAL4 (resp. E3-basic) is
provided for products related to specific technical domains. This agreement was initially signed by
Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Italy
joined the SOGIS-MRA in December 2010. The current list of signatory nations, approved certification
schemes and the list of technical domains for which the higher recognition applies can be found on:
http://www.sogisportal.eu.eIDAS-Regulation
TÜV Rheinland Nederland BV, operating the Netherlands Scheme for Certification in the Area of IT
Security (NSCIB), has been notified as a Designated Certification Body from The Netherlands under
Article 30(2) and 39(2) of Regulation 910/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE
COUNCIL of 23 July 2014.
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1 Executive Summary
This Certification Report states the outcome of the Common Criteria security evaluation of the Check
Point Software Technologies Ltd. R80.30 Firmware for Security Gateway Appliances with Firewall, IPS
Blade Pattern Matcher, and Security Management Server. The developer of the Check Point Software
Technologies Ltd. R80.30 Firmware for Security Gateway Appliances with Firewall, IPS Blade Pattern
Matcher, and Security Management Server is Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. located in Tel
Aviv-Yafo and they also act as the sponsor of the evaluation and certification. A Certification Report is
intended to assist prospective consumers when judging the suitability of the IT security properties of
the product for their particular requirements.
The TOE is a managed packet filtering firewall application, with IPS pattern matching (software) blade.
The TOE provides controlled connectivity between two or more network environments. It mediates
information flows between clients and servers located on internal and external networks governed by
the firewalls.
The TOE has been evaluated by Brightsight B.V. located in Delft, The Netherlands. The evaluation
was completed on 20 December with the approval of the ETR. The certification procedure has been
conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Netherlands Scheme for Certification in the Area of
IT Security [NSCIB].
The scope of the evaluation is defined by the security target [ST], which identifies assumptions made
during the evaluation, the intended environment for the Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
R80.30 Firmware for Security Gateway Appliances with Firewall, IPS Blade Pattern Matcher, and
Security Management Server, the security requirements, and the level of confidence (evaluation
assurance level) at which the product is intended to satisfy the security requirements. Consumers of
the Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. R80.30 Firmware for Security Gateway Appliances with
Firewall, IPS Blade Pattern Matcher, and Security Management Server are advised to verify that their
own environment is consistent with the security target, and to give due consideration to the comments,
observations and recommendations in this certification report.
The results documented in the evaluation technical report [ETR]
1
for this product provides sufficient
evidence that the TOE meets the EAL4 augmented with ALC_FLR.1 (Basic Flaw Remediation)
assurance requirements for the evaluated security functionality.
The evaluation was conducted using the Common Methodology for Information Technology Security
Evaluation, Version 3.1 Revision 5 [CEM] for conformance to the Common Criteria for Information
Technology Security Evaluation, version 3.1 Revision 5 [CC].
TÜV Rheinland Nederland B.V., as the NSCIB Certification Body, declares that the evaluation meets
all the conditions for international recognition of Common Criteria Certificates and that the product will
be listed on the NSCIB Certified Products list. It should be noted that the certification results only apply
to the specific version of the product as evaluated.
1
The Evaluation Technical Report contains information proprietary to the developer and/or the
evaluator, and is not releasable for public review.
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2 Certification Results
2.1 Identification of Target of Evaluation
The Target of Evaluation (TOE) for this evaluation is the Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
R80.30 Firmware for Security Gateway Appliances with Firewall, IPS Blade Pattern Matcher, and
Security Management Server from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. located in Tel Aviv-Yafo.
The TOE is comprised of the following main components:
Delivery
item type
Identifier Version
Software
Check_Point_R80.30_T200_Security_Management.iso with
Check_Point_R80.30_T200_Hotfix_T6_sk162814_FULL.tgz
R80.30
Software
Check_Point_R80.30_T200_Security_Gateway.iso with
Check_Point_R80.30_T200_Hotfix_133_T6_sk162814_FULL.tgz
R80.30
Software
Check_Point_R80.30_Gaia_3.10_T273.iso with
Check_Point_R80.30_T300_GAIA_3.10_Hotfix_020_T6_sk1628
14_FULL.tgz
R80.30
To ensure secure usage a set of guidance documents is provided together with the Check Point
Software Technologies Ltd. R80.30 Firmware for Security Gateway Appliances with Firewall, IPS
Blade Pattern Matcher, and Security Management Server. Details can be found in section
“Documentation” of this report.
2.2 Security Policy
The TOE is a managed packet filtering firewall application, with IPS pattern matching (software) blade.
The TOE provides controlled connectivity between two or more network environments. It mediates
information flows between clients and servers located on internal and external networks governed by
the firewalls.
The Management Server and management workstation are co-located on a logically protected LAN
behind the firewall.
The purpose of the firewall blade is to protect the assets operating on a customer’s network from
malicious attempts to control or gain access to those assets. The IPS pattern matching blade provides
protection against signatures defining malicious and unwanted network traffic, focusing on application
and server vulnerabilities, as well as in-the-wild attacks by exploit kits and malicious attackers. The
firewall filtering rules, and IPS rules are defined, managed and deployed by the Security Management
Server.
2.3 Assumptions and Clarification of Scope
2.3.1 Assumptions
The assumptions defined in the Security Target are not covered by the TOE itself. These aspects lead
to specific Security Objectives to be fulfilled by the TOE-Environment. Detailed information on these
security objectives that must be fulfilled by the TOE environment can be found in section 3.3 of the
[ST].
2.3.2 Clarification of scope
The evaluation did not reveal any threats to the TOE that are not countered by the evaluated security
functions of the product.
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2.4 Architectural Information
The TOE is a managed packet filtering firewall application, with IPS pattern matching (software) blade.
The TOE provides controlled connectivity between two or more network environments. It mediates
information flows between clients and servers located on internal and external networks governed by
the firewalls.
The TOE is a software TOE and its components execute on hardware platforms identified in the [ST].
These platforms are provided by the Operational Environment.
The TOE includes the following components:
 Security Management server
o The Management Server handles policy, log, alert and system status data flows. In
handling the policy data flow, it receives policy data entered via the Check Point
Management API by the TOE administrator, and processes (compiles), stores and
distributes it to the Security Gateway. In handling the log and alert data flow, it
receives data from the Gateway, and processes, stores and conveys it to the TOE
administrator. In handling the system status data flow, it passes queries from the
Management API to the Gateway and query results from the Gateway to the
Management API.
 Security Gateway
o The Gateway is the policy enforcement point for traffic flowing through the TOE.
Traffic filtering is performed by kernel-level code to ensure maximum performance.
User-level components perform tasks which the kernel cannot: write-to-file, log
handling, inter-host communication and management.
The logical architecture of the TOE can be depicted as follows:
2.5 Documentation
The following documentation is provided with the product by the developer to the customer:
Identifier Version
R80.30 CC Installation Configuration Admin Guide (101219)
2.6 IT Product Testing
Testing (depth, coverage, functional tests, independent testing): The evaluators examined the
developer’s testing activities documentation and verified that the developer has met their testing
responsibilities.
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2.6.1 Testing approach and depth
The developer has tested all TSFIs. The evaluator repeated all the automated test cases detailed in
the developer’s test plan and sampled the manual test case.
2.6.2 Independent Penetration Testing
The following focused vulnerability analysis was used by the evaluator to identify potential
vulnerabilities:
 Focused search: An analysis of the evidence with the aim of identifying any potential
vulnerabilities evident through the contained information. The evaluator used their knowledge
of the TOE design and operation gained from the TOE deliverables to conduct a flaw
hypothesis to identify potential flaws in the development of the TOE and potential errors in the
specified method of operation of the TOE.
 Generic vulnerabilities: The evaluator considers generic vulnerabilities defined in the CEM
(bypassing, tampering, direct, monitoring and misuse vulnerabilities). During this examination
several potential vulnerabilities were identified.
 Public vulnerability search: The evaluator performed public domain vulnerability search based
on the TOE name, TOE type, and identified 3rd party security relevant libraries and/or
services. Several additional potential vulnerabilities were identified during a search in the
public domain.
 Network scanning tools: The evaluator ran vulnerability scanning tools to identify potential
vulnerabilities. The tools assist the evaluator in assuring that the public domain search is
complete.
 Static code analysis: The developer provide the results of static code analysis. The evaluator
reviewed the findings.
The identified potential vulnerabilities were analysed, and some of the potential vulnerabilities were
covered by guidance or by implementation checks. For remaining potential vulnerabilities, penetration
tests were devised.
The evaluator focused on the following:
 Disabled features
 Bypassing the firewall rule base
 Bypassing user authentication
 TOE initialisation
 Fail-safe mode of the Firewall Kernel
 Use of memset
 Firewall policy installation
 Concurrent administration sessions
Local audit log storage
2.6.3 Test Configuration
The developer has two environments (automated and manual) that are used for testing. The
environments contained the following:
 Automated:
o Smart-1 405 Security Management appliance running R80.30 GA Security
Management Server with HF:
Check_Point_R80.30_T200_Hotfix_T6_sk162814_FULL.tgz
o 6500 Security Gateway appliance running R80.30 GA 2.6 Gateway with HF:
Check_Point_R80.30_T200_Hotfix_133_T6_sk162814_FULL.tgz
 Manual:
o Smart-1 405 Security Management appliance running R80.30 GA Security
Management Server with HF:
Check_Point_R80.30_T200_Hotfix_T6_sk162814_FULL.tgz
26000 Security Gateway appliance running R80.30 GA 3.10 Gateway with HF:
Check_Point_R80.30_T300_GAIA_3.10_Hotfix_020_T6_sk162814_FULL.tgz.
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2.6.4 Testing Results
The testing activities, including configurations, procedures, test cases, expected results and observed
results are summarised in the [ETR], with references to the documents containing the full details.
The developer’s tests and the independent functional tests produced the expected results, giving
assurance that the TOE behaves as specified in its [ST] and functional specification.
No exploitable vulnerabilities were found with the independent penetration tests.
2.7 Evaluated Configuration
The TOE is defined uniquely by its name and version number Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
R80.30 Firmware for Security Gateway Appliances with Firewall, IPS Blade Pattern Matcher, and
Security Management Server.
2.8 Results of the Evaluation
The evaluation lab documented their evaluation results in the [ETR] which references a ASE
Intermediate Report and other evaluator documents.
The verdict of each claimed assurance requirement is “Pass”.
Based on the above evaluation results the evaluation lab concluded the Check Point Software
Technologies Ltd. R80.30 Firmware for Security Gateway Appliances with Firewall, IPS Blade Pattern
Matcher, and Security Management Server, to be CC Part 2 extended, CC Part 3 conformant, and
to meet the requirements of EAL 4 augmented with ALC_FLR.1. This implies that the product
satisfies the security requirements specified in Security Target [ST].
2.9 Comments/Recommendations
The user guidance as outlined in section 2.5 contains necessary information about the usage of the
TOE.
In addition all aspects of assumptions, threats and policies as outlined in the Security Target not
covered by the TOE itself need to be fulfilled by the operational environment of the TOE.
The customer or user of the product shall consider the results of the certification within his system risk
management process. In order for the evolution of attack methods and techniques to be covered, he
should define the period of time until a re-assessment for the TOE is required and thus requested from
the sponsor of the certificate.
The strength of the cryptographic algorithms and protocols was not rated in the course of this
evaluation.
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3 Security Target
The Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. R80.30 Firmware for Security Gateway Appliances with
Firewall, IPS Blade Pattern Matcher, and Security Management Server Security Target, 10 December
2019 [ST] is included here by reference.
4 Definitions
This list of Acronyms and the glossary of terms contains elements that are not already defined by the
CC or CEM:
IT Information Technology
ITSEF IT Security Evaluation Facility
JIL Joint Interpretation Library
NSCIB Netherlands Scheme for Certification in the area of IT security
PP Protection Profile
TOE Target of Evaluation
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5 Bibliography
This section lists all referenced documentation used as source material in the compilation of this
report:
[CC] Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation, Parts I, II and III,
Version 3.1 Revision 5, April 2017.
[CEM] Common Methodology for Information Technology Security Evaluation, Version 3.1
Revision 5, April 2017.
[ETR] Evaluation Technical Report Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. R80.30
Firmware for Security Gateway Appliances with Firewall, IPS Blade Pattern
Matcher, and Security Management Server
[NSCIB] Netherlands Scheme for Certification in the Area of IT Security, Version 2.5, 28
March 2019.
[ST] Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. R80.30 Firmware for Security Gateway
Appliances with Firewall, IPS Blade Pattern Matcher, and Security Management
Server Security Target, 10 December 2019.
(This is the end of this report).