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CVE-2026-16232

Exploitation: active CVSS 9.1 CRITICAL

CVSS base score: 9.1 (Critical) CISA · v3.1  ·  9.3 (Critical) vendor CNA · v4.0

Two scores are shown because both the vendor's CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) and CISA's Vulnrichment program scored this vulnerability independently — a gap between them reflects differing judgments, not an error.

Check Point SmartConsole Improper Authentication Vulnerability

Vendor: Check Point   Product: SmartConsole

Description

Check Point SmartConsole contains an improper authentication vulnerability which could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain an application login token and use it to authenticate with full administrative privileges.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 21 points from 2026-07-25, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 74.0% on 2026-08-29.

Published Applicability

CVE List v5 (CNA container) 8 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

DateSourceArticle
2026-07-29 The Hacker News Public PoC Released for Exploited Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass
2026-07-27 Check Point Research 27th July – Threat Intelligence Report
2026-07-23 The Hacker News Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access

Articles from monitored vendor research blogs and security news feeds that specifically mention this CVE. Coverage begins when feed monitoring started; earlier articles are not indexed.

Detection & Exploitation

Scan
Exploit / Pen Test
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
yes
total
9.1 CRITICAL
9.3 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE-287 — Improper Authentication.
2026-07-22

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-287) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

KEV Catalog Status

2026-07-22
2026-07-25
Unknown

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA KEV 2026-07-22 source record →
CISA Vulnrichment 2026-07-22 source record →

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2026-07-22 CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog CISA

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

DateToolEvidence qualityReference
— Metasploit Direct — curated exploit code Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass Run Script RCE

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References