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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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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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: 2026-09-30T20:20:35.928Z

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

Link: CVE-2026-102113

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-30T21:16:58.427

Modified: 2026-09-30T21:16:58.427

Link: CVE-2026-102113

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Updated: 2026-09-30T22:00:16Z

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