Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows, with Anti-Bot or Threat Emulation blades installed, before version E83.20, tries to load…

published 2020-10-30 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-27168

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits: 0; none known

Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows, with Anti-Bot or Threat Emulation blades installed, before version E83.20, tries to load a non-existent DLL during a query for the Domain Name. An attacker with administrator privileges can leverage this to gain code execution within a Check Point Software Technologies signed binary, where under certain circumstances may cause the client to terminate.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

checkpoint endpoint_security e83.20

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Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.4	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

n/a Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows

Classification

Weakness

CWE-114 Process Control
CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

References

supportcontent.checkpoint.com /solutions?id=sk168081
release-notes, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-6014
NVD CVE-2020-6014

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