Check Point has notified customers that a critical zero-day vulnerability discovered recently in its products has been exploited in the wild. The exploited vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-16232 and it affects the cybersecurity company’s Security Management and Multi-Domain Management products. The flaw has been described as an authentication bypass issue that allows an attacker to obtain an application login token. The token can then be used to log in via the SmartConsole with full administrator privileges, and make changes to the security policy and configuration. “Check Point confirmed that this vulnerability has been observed in the wild, affecting a handful of customers whose Management environments were directly exposed to the Internet without IP restrictions,” Check Point said.…