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, 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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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisa-cg

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Updated: 2026-09-30T20:20:59.159Z

Reserved: 2026-09-28T17:39:13.562Z

Link: CVE-2026-102112

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-30T21:16:58.267

Modified: 2026-09-30T21:16:58.267

Link: CVE-2026-102112

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