Summary

But firewalls face the web, making them just as vulnerable to attack as other systems, as evidenced by the emergency hotfixes released by Check Point Software for several of its products. The patches address a high-severity privilege escalation flaw, CVE-2026-123039 , that gives attackers root privilege access and the ability to send commands to the Gaia OS Dynamic CLI daemon, a core background process.

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