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.
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Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:15:00 +0000
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Accellion
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:accellion:kiteworks:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Accellion
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Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0000
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Kiteworks
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Kiteworks
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Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Kiteworks Core Local Privilege Escalation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-269 CWE-78 |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: cisa-cg
Published: 2026-09-30T20:20:59.159Z
Updated: 2026-10-01T13:37:02.000Z
Reserved: 2026-09-28T17:39:13.562Z
Link: CVE-2026-102112
Updated: 2026-10-01T13:31:36.290Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2026-09-30T21:16:58.267
Modified: 2026-10-07T13:56:12.303
Link: CVE-2026-102112
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