CVE-2026-102118: Accellion Kiteworks

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Accellion Kiteworks: before 9.5.0 (fixed in 9.5.0)

Published 2026-09-30. Last modified 2026-10-07.