Disclosure summary
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.
Source-reported weakness categories
CWE-59, CWE-269
Source-specific records & product guidance
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NIST National Vulnerability Database · NVD-CVE-2026-102113
Open original source · Updated Oct 01, 2026
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Original records & references
PUBLISHED 2026-09-30T17:16:58-04:00
MODIFIED 2026-10-01T10:17:15-04:00
INGESTED 2026-10-06T11:44:59-04:00