{"id":"CVE-2026-102112","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-102112","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:48:22.424Z","title":"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 and run arbitrary commands with the highest privileges.","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 and run arbitrary commands with the highest privileges. Exploitation requires existing local access to that service account.","published":"2026-09-30T21:16:58.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-07T13:56:12.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-78","CWE-269"],"affected":["accellion/kiteworks"],"epss":{"score":0.00375,"percentile":0.31257,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-01","score":0.0018,"percentile":0.06776}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.38%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-30T21:16:58.000Z","detail":{"score":"7.8","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-09-30T21:16:58.267Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.8)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-658c-86vw-g9hf","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725"},{"url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/VA/white/2026/va-26-274-01.json","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102112","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}