Public vulnerability disclosure

CVE-2026-123039

Local privilege escalation to root in the DynamicCLI daemon via local world-writable control socket

publishedCWE-862CWE-732

The Gaia OS DynamicCLI daemon runs as root and listens on a world-writable local socket (/tmp/dynamic_socket) without authenticating connecting processes. An authenticated local user can send a command to the socket and have it executed as root.

Technical severity7.8 highCVSS 3.1 · CNA: checkpoint
Published2026-11-12Source updated 2026-11-12
Collected2026-11-121 attributed source

Fixes and workarounds

No remediation reported in collected sources.

Missing remediation information is not evidence that no patch exists.

Affected products and versions

Affected products, source version ranges and reporting authorities
ProductVersionsAuthority
Quantum Security Gateway
checkpoint
R82.10 with Jumbo Hotfix Take 50 or below (affected)
R82.20 with Jumbo Hotfix Take 10 or below (affected)
R82 with Jumbo Hotfix Take 130 or below (affected)
R81.20 with Jumbo Hotfix Take 173 or below (affected)
CNA: checkpoint
Quantum Security Management
checkpoint
R82.10 with Jumbo Hotfix Take 50 or below (affected)
R82.20 with Jumbo Hotfix Take 10 or below (affected)
R82 with Jumbo Hotfix Take 130 or below (affected)
R81.20 with Jumbo Hotfix Take 173 or below (affected)
CNA: checkpoint

Version ranges are source assertions. Check the vendor advisory and your installed configuration before determining exposure.

CVSS assessments

CVSS scores, vectors and reporting authorities
Version / scoreVectorAuthority
3.1 / 7.8
high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCNA: checkpoint

Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

References

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