6.7Medium

CVE-2026-102141Kiteworks Core Privilege Escalation through External Control of File Name or Path

Kiteworks Core Published: (1 month ago)

Description

Two Kiteworks Core cluster-management operations did not validate file paths supplied to them, so an attacker holding root on one node of a cluster could write files as root onto another node and cause them to be executed there. Exploitation requires backend root access on a cluster node and a pending software patch present on the target node.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-73CWE-269

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
accellion kiteworks < 9.5.1
Kiteworks Core < 9.5.1, fixed 9.5.1

References and patches

  • url Vendor Advisory
  • url third-party-advisoryBroken Link

CPE matches (NVD) (1)

  • cpe:2.3:a:accellion:kiteworks:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 9.5.1