{"id":244435,"date":"2026-09-24T01:18:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/check-point-warns-of-hackers-exploiting-security-gateway-vpn-rce-flaw"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:18:05","slug":"check-point-warns-of-hackers-exploiting-security-gateway-vpn-rce-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/check-point-warns-of-hackers-exploiting-security-gateway-vpn-rce-flaw","title":{"rendered":"Check Point warns of hackers exploiting Security Gateway VPN RCE flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/check-point-warns-of-hackers-exploiting-security-gateway-vpn-rce-flaw.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity company Check Point has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026\u201385102, a pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the VPN certificate-handling functionality of its Security Gateway product.<\/p>\n<p>The same advisory also warns of threat actors exploiting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/check-point-patches-management-server-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pre-authentication path traversal flaw<\/a> tracked as CVE-2026\u201393616, which impacts the Management web service and can allow script execution and Java class loading.<\/p>\n<p>The company says that CVE-2026\u201393616 has been exploited as a zero-day since July 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity company Check Point has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026\u201385102, a pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the VPN certificate-handling functionality of its Security Gateway product. The same advisory also warns of threat actors exploiting a pre-authentication path traversal flaw tracked as CVE-2026\u201393616, which impacts the Management web service and can allow script execution [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}