CVE-2026-50751 — Check Point Security Gateway Improper Authentication Vulnerability
Overview
Check Point Security Gateway contains an improper authentication vulnerability in IKEv1 key exchange that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass user authentication and establish a remote access VPN connection without a valid user password.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-50751
- Vulnerability
- Check Point Security Gateway Improper Authentication Vulnerability
- Vendor
- Check Point
- Affected products
- Check Point: Security Gateway
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- EPSS score
- 6.2% probability of exploitation in 30 days · 93th percentile
- Published
- 2026-06-08
Remediation guidance
CVE-2026-50751 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for Check Point the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
FIRST EPSS estimates a 6.2% probability that CVE-2026-50751 will be exploited within the next 30 days (93th percentile of all CVEs) — useful for risk-based patch sequencing.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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