CVE-2022-41604: Check Point Zonealarm

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Check Point ZoneAlarm Extreme Security before 15.8.211.19229 allows local users to escalate privileges. This occurs because of weak permissions for the %PROGRAMDATA%\CheckPoint\ZoneAlarm\Data\Updates directory, and a self-protection driver bypass that allows creation of a junction directory. This can be leveraged to perform an arbitrary file move as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

Affected products

• Check Point Zonealarm: before 15.8.211.19229 (fixed in 15.8.211.19229)

Published 2022-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.