FKIE_CVE-2026-102120

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-30 21:17 - Updated: 2026-10-01 02:17
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-m968-434m-rgwp
9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/VA/white/2026/va-26-274-01.json
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