Vulnerability in Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway

[ Why it matters ]Priority signals

• Critical severity: CVSS 9.1

[ Description ]Official description

Improper authentication in a Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway administrative service. An administrative service in Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway did not consistently enforce administrator authentication, so the required password check could be bypassed. An attacker who referenced a valid administrator account could potentially create, modify, or delete internal users and managed domains and change their security-feature configuration without authenticating; deleting a managed domain also removes its user accounts and could lock administrators out of the gateway.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• NCSC-NL8 Oct 2026NCSC-2026-0408

  Vulnerabilities fixed in Kiteworks Translated from Dutch

  Probability/damage M/HCVE-2026-102089CVE-2026-102090CVE-2026-102091+58 more CVEs
• BSI CERT-Bund30 Sep 2026WID-SEC-2026-3695

  Kiteworks: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-102100CVE-2026-102144CVE-2026-102117+58 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-wwv8-qhqg-4q76Vendor Advisory
• raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/VA/white/2026/va-26-274-01.jsonBroken Link