CVE-2026-102118High· 7.8▾ TwilightA local privilege escalation vulnerability in Kiteworks could have allowed an attacker with an existing shell under a low-privileged service account to escalate to root privileges on the appliance.
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 42.9 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Oct 1.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
0.2%
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.2% → 0.4%
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Kiteworks could have allowed an attacker with an existing shell under a low-privileged service account to escalate to root privileges on the appliance.
kiteworks < 9.5.0Upgrade past the affected range:
kiteworks 9.5.0Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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CVE-2026-102145Medium· 6.6An authenticated administrator could cause the server to issue requests to, and interact with, internal network services that are not meant to be reachable through this interface
CVE-2026-102146Medium· 6.5An authenticated Email Protection Gateway administrator holding only limited, delegated permissions could write files with attacker-controlled content to arbitrary locations accessible to the Email Protection Gateway service account