CVE-2026-102113

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.

CVSS 3.1

7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-59, CWE-269

Published

2026-09-30

Modified

2026-10-07

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• accellion:kiteworks

References

• https://github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-gwj7-wxrr-28v5
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/VA/white/2026/va-26-274-01.json

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