CVE-2026-85102 and 93616 - Check Point Security Gateway RCE/Path Traversal Exploited

Last updated: 2026-09-22T20:07:55Z

CVSSv3: 9.8

What’s Happening

In what’s-old-is-new-again news, two CVEs were released today for Checkpoint Security Gateway management toolsets, including a pre-auth remote code execution and a path traversal in the management web service.

Here are Check Points internal support center details:

Since I started writing this Check Point posted notification of exploitation on their blog.

Both CVEs have been added to CISA KEV.

Actions

Check the advisories above for affected versions and observables/indicators. Patch if impacted, and hunt on the listed observables.

Notes

Directory traversal vulnerabilities will be with us until the end of civilization.

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CISA has added these CVEs to the exploited pool.