CVE-2019-8454: Check Point Endpoint Security

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A local attacker can create a hard-link between a file to which the Check Point Endpoint Security client for Windows before E80.96 writes and another BAT file, then by impersonating the WPAD server, the attacker can write BAT commands into that file that will later be run by the user or the system.

Affected products

• Check Point Endpoint Security: before e80.96 (fixed in e80.96)

Published 2019-04-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.