CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-53899
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-11-29
- Last modified
- 2026-10-07
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-941
Description
Kiteworks MFT orchestrates end-to-end file transfer workflows. Prior to version 9.1.0, the back-end of Kiteworks MFT is vulnerable to an incorrectly specified destination in a communication channel which allows an attacker with administrative privileges on the system under certain circumstances to intercept upstream communication which could lead to an escalation of privileges. This issue has been patched in version 9.1.0.
Affected configurations
• accellion kiteworks managed file transfer (< 9.1.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-941 Incorrectly Specified Destination in a Communication Channel weakness
References
- https://github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-5gx5-vcpp-8cr5 Patch, Third Party Advisory