CVE-2026-102118
Accellion Kiteworks: privilege escalation
- Risk score
- 53/100
- CVSS
- 7.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.4%
- Published
- 30 Sep 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Kiteworks could have allowed an attacker with an existing shell under a low-privileged service account to escalate to root privileges on the appliance.
- Affected
- Accellion Kiteworks
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Story map
At a glance
Accellion Kiteworks: Amber, patch this week. Kiteworks Core did not correctly validate a parameter submitted to the password reset workflow. An unauthenticated attacker who knew the email address of a user with a locally stored password could potentially reset that account's password without access to the emailed reset link and then authenticate as that user, in…
The flaws
- CVE-2026-102118: Privilege escalation (CVSS 7.8 · EPSS 0%)
- CVE-2026-102115: Kiteworks Core did not correctly validate a parameter submitted to the password reset workflow (CVSS 9.8 · EPSS 1%)
- CVE-2026-102106: Authentication bypass (CVSS 9.1 · EPSS 1%)
- CVE-2026-102102: Server-side request forgery can lead to information disclosure (CVSS 9.1 · EPSS 1%)
The fix
Upgrade Accellion Kiteworks: 9.5.0 or later on your release line
Who is exposed: Accellion Kiteworks
Where it stands
- No known exploitation
Connects to
- Same weakness: CWE-59 (CWE-59). 78 other warnings in 30 days
- Same product: Earlier Accellion Kiteworks warnings. 57 in the last 90 days
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.8 high
References
Original description
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Kiteworks could have allowed an attacker with an existing shell under a low-privileged service account to escalate to root privileges on the appliance.
Last activity 30 Sep 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.