CVE-2026-102112Kiteworks Core Local Privilege Escalation
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EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.38%, higher than 29% of scored CVEs.
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A privilege escalation vulnerability in Kiteworks could allow an attacker who has already obtained code execution as an unprivileged backend service account on the appliance to escalate to root and run arbitrary commands with the highest privileges. Exploitation requires existing local access to that service account.
- CVSS
- 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-78, CWE-269
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 0.38% (percentile 29)
- Assigned by
- cisa-cg
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Oct 1, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Kiteworks Core kiteworks:core (from the name) | before 9.5.0; 9.5.0 not affected | CNA record |
accellion kiteworks accellion:kiteworks | before 9.5.0 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-658c-86vw-g9hfvendor-advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/VA/white/2026/va-26-274-01.jsonthird-party-advisory, broken-link
The CVE record on cve.org NVD's entry
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