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. A privileged routine did not safely handle a filesystem path that the lower-privileged account could influence, allowing the attacker to cause a root-owned operation to 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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Kiteworks
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Kiteworks core |
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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. A privileged routine did not safely handle a filesystem path that the lower-privileged account could influence, allowing the attacker to cause a root-owned operation to 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-59 |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: cisa-cg
Published: 2026-09-30T20:20:35.928Z
Updated: 2026-10-01T13:37:02.814Z
Reserved: 2026-09-28T17:39:13.562Z
Link: CVE-2026-102113
Updated: 2026-10-01T13:31:37.707Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2026-09-30T21:16:58.427
Modified: 2026-10-07T13:56:33.520
Link: CVE-2026-102113
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