CVE-2025-53899

Kiteworks MFT is vulnerable to an Incorrectly Specified Destination in a Communication Channel

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Nov 29, 2025
Updated: Dec 1, 2025
Reserved: Jul 11, 2025

Description

Kiteworks MFT orchestrates end-to-end file transfer workflows. Prior to version 9.1.0, the back-end of Kiteworks MFT is vulnerable to an incorrectly specified destination in a communication channel which allows an attacker with administrative privileges on the system under certain circumstances to intercept upstream communication which could lead to an escalation of privileges. This issue has been patched in version 9.1.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-941 Incorrectly Specified Destination in a Communication Channel

Affected Products

Product	Versions
security-advisorieskiteworks	< 9.1.0Affected

References

https://github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-5gx5-vcpp-8cr5

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