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CVE-2026-102113: Kiteworks Core Local Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-30 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-59

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. 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.

Affected products

• Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway: before 9.5.0 — fixed in 9.5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway 9.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-gwj7-wxrr-28v5
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/VA/white/2026/va-26-274-01.json

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