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Check Point warns of zero-day flaw exploited for root access
Check Point Software has released emergency hotfixes to address a high-severity flaw that hackers have been exploiting to gain root privileges and establish persistence on vulnerable devices since late October.
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Check Point Software has released emergency hotfixes to address a high-severity flaw that hackers have been exploiting to gain root privileges and establish persistence on vulnerable devices since late October. Tracked as CVE-2026-123039 , this local privilege escalation vulnerability was found in the DynamicCLI IPC (Inter-Process Communication) interface used to send privileged command requests to the root-level Gaia OS DynamicCLI (dynamic_server) daemon.
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