Check Point on Tuesday announced urgent patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in Management Server that has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day.
Tracked as CVE-2026-93616 (CVSS score of 9.8), the security defect is described as a directory traversal and file upload issue that could allow unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary scripts on the Management Server.
“This vulnerability is exploited in the Wild. Check Point is aware of a handful of customers who have been attacked,” the cybersecurity firm warned in its advisory.
According to Check Point, the flaw impacts its Security Management Server, Multi-Domain Security Management Server, Log Server, Multi-Domain Log Server, and SmartEvent products.
To resolve CVE-2026-93616, Check Point released the R82.20 Security Hotfix (TAR) and also included the fixes in the Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator for R82.10 (Take 45), R82 (Take 127), R81.20 (Take 170), and R81.10 (Take 192).
As a mitigation option, customers are advised to limit access to the Management Server behind a security gateway or a firewall and limit access to port TCP/19009 to trusted IP addresses. Check Point noted that standard LivePatch updates do not resolve CVE-2026-93616.
Check Point also released indicators of compromise (IoCs) to help organizations hunt for potential exploitation.