CVE-2019-8459
Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows, with the VPN blade, before version E80.83,...
Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows, with the VPN blade, before version E80.83, starts a process without using quotes in the path. This can cause loading of a previously placed executable with a name similar to the parts of the path, instead of the intended one.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows, with the VPN blade, before version E80.83, starts a process without using quotes in the path. This can cause loading of a previously placed executable with a name similar to the parts of the path, instead of the intended one.
- Record
CVE-2019-8459- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 High
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-428
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows, with the VPN blade, before version E80.83, starts a process without using quotes in the path. This can cause loading of a previously placed executable with a name similar to the parts of the path, instead of the intended one.
- Record
CVE-2019-8459- Weakness
- CWE-428
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2019-17849 No score
Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows, with the VPN blade, before version E80.83, starts a process without using quotes in the path. This can cause loading of a previously placed executable with a name similar to the parts of the path, instead of the intended one.
- Record
EUVD-2019-17849- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-vp84-gqh8-x8v5
Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows, with the VPN blade, before version E80.83,...
Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows, with the VPN blade, before version E80.83, starts a process without using quotes in the path. This can cause loading of a previously placed executable with a name similar to the parts of the path, instead of the intended one.
- Record
GHSA-vp84-gqh8-x8v5- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-428
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
- check point endpoint security client for windows, vpn blade
- checkpoint capsule docs standalone client
- checkpoint endpoint security clients
- checkpoint endpoint security server package
- checkpoint jumbo hotfix for endpoint security server
- checkpoint remote access clients
- checkpoint smartconsole for endpoint security server
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2019-8459 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Check Point Endpoint Security Client For Windows, Vpn Blade, published June 20, 2019. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.19%, the 68th percentile. No source names a fixed version.