Vulnerability in Kiteworks Core

[ Description ]Official 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.

[ 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-gwj7-wxrr-28v5Vendor Advisory
• raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/VA/white/2026/va-26-274-01.jsonBroken Link