Is itCheck something

No. CVE-2026-85102

Check Point VPN gateways can be taken over remotely

Being used now

Yes. Attackers are using this right now.

Organizations using Check Point Security Gateway or Spark Firewall VPNs.

What to do

Apply Check Point's update for your gateway or Spark Firewall.

Confirmed in attacksSep 22, 2026
ProductCheck Point (several products)
GitHub repos1
Attack likelihood, next 30 days54%

Attack likelihood is EPSS, a daily estimate from FIRST.org of how likely this bug is to be used in attacks in the next 30 days.

The official description

Check Point Security Gateway and Check Point Spark Firewall using Site to Site VPN or Remote Access VPN contain an improper certificate validation vulnerability which could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the Gateway.

For your tech helper or AI assistant

A read-only checklist. Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or a coding agent; it only looks and changes nothing.

Read-only check, change nothing, send nothing anywhere.
Is Check Point Multiple Products (CVE-2026-85102) installed or running on this machine or in this project?
1. Find every copy and its version (apps, packages, containers, lockfiles).
2. Compare each version against the vendor's fixed version for CVE-2026-85102. Quote the vendor page you used.
3. Report a table: where, version, fixed version, status (exposed / fixed / not installed / unsure).
4. List the exact update steps, but do not run them.
Download playbook (.md)

Code on GitHub

Repos named after this bug. Some are scanners or write-ups, some are working attack code. Do not run them on a machine you care about.

Sources