Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Kiteworks could have allowed an attacker who had already obtained code execution on one node of a clustered Kiteworks deployment to run operating system commands with elevated privileges on another node of the same cluster. Insufficient input validation in an internal cluster management function let attacker-supplied values reach a privileged execution context; exploitation requires existing access to a node in the cluster, and the affected function is not reachable from outside the cluster.
Published: 2026-09-30
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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Description A privilege escalation vulnerability in Kiteworks could have allowed an attacker who had already obtained code execution on one node of a clustered Kiteworks deployment to run operating system commands with elevated privileges on another node of the same cluster. Insufficient input validation in an internal cluster management function let attacker-supplied values reach a privileged execution context; exploitation requires existing access to a node in the cluster, and the affected function is not reachable from outside the cluster.
Title Kiteworks Core OS Command Injection
Weaknesses CWE-269
CWE-78
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisa-cg

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-30T20:17:48.543Z

Reserved: 2026-09-28T17:39:13.562Z

Link: CVE-2026-102120

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-30T21:17:00.057

Modified: 2026-09-30T21:17:00.057

Link: CVE-2026-102120

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Updated: 2026-09-30T22:30:07Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-269

    Improper Privilege Management

  • CWE-78

    Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')