Check Point Software has released emergency fixes for a critical Check Point Management Server vulnerability (CVE-2026-93616) that has been exploited as far back as July 23, 2026. The company also confirmed that a pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-85102) in Check Point (Quantum) Security Gateway for which it released patches on September 9, 2026, started getting probed a few days after.
Attackers hit Check Point Management Servers and Spark firewalls, F5 BIG-IP APM instances
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