{"id":"CVE-2026-102113","title":"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","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…","severity":"high","cvss":7.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-59","CWE-269"],"vendor":"accellion","product":"kiteworks","affected":["kiteworks < 9.5.0"],"patched":["kiteworks 9.5.0"],"published":"2026-09-30","updated":"2026-10-07","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-07T13:56:33.520","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102113","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-gwj7-wxrr-28v5","label":"9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725"},{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/VA/white/2026/va-26-274-01.json","label":"9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"epss":0.00389,"epssPercentile":0.32889,"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-10-01T13:21:18.422456Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-09-30T21:25:07.827Z","slug":"CVE-2026-102113","body":"## Overview\n\nA 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `kiteworks < 9.5.0`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade past the affected range:\n\n- `kiteworks 9.5.0`","depth":"twilight","depthScore":43,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":42.9,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}