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Critical authentication bypass in Check Point SmartConsole under active exploitation

Feeds.4Sysops •IT News • July 23, 2026

Check Point has disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-16232, affecting its SmartConsole GUI admin panel. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to obtain an application login token, granting them full administrative control over Security Management and Multi-Domain Security Management servers. By exploiting this, unauthorized actors can modify security policies and configurations on compromised systems. Source

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