CVE-2022-23743: Check Point Zonealarm

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Check Point ZoneAlarm before version 15.8.200.19118 allows a local actor to escalate privileges during the upgrade process. In addition, weak permissions in the ProgramData\CheckPoint\ZoneAlarm\Data\Updates directory allow a local attacker the ability to execute an arbitrary file write, leading to execution of code as local system, in ZoneAlarm versions before v15.8.211.192119

Affected products

• Check Point Zonealarm: before 15.8.211.192119 (fixed in 15.8.211.192119)

Published 2022-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.