CVE-2026-102112

Kiteworks Core Local Privilege Escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Sep 30, 2026
Updated: Oct 1, 2026
Reserved: Sep 28, 2026

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 and run arbitrary commands with the highest privileges. Exploitation requires existing local access to that service account.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	cisa-cg

Weaknesses

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
CoreKiteworks	before 9.5.0Affected 9.5.0Not affected

References

urlvendor-advisory
urlthird-party-advisory

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