Kiteworks vulnerabilities
We track 56 vulnerabilities in Kiteworks products across 7 products. 56 are rated high or critical, and none are known to be exploited. The most recent was published on November 6, 2026.
Latest Kiteworks vulnerabilities
- 9.8 Critical severity
ownCloud: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Authentication Bypass / Missing Brute-Force Protection in remote.php/webdav/ in ownCloud ownCloud server 10.16.3 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to perform unlimited online password guessing against WebDAV accounts via repeated HTTP Basic Authenticat
- 7.2 High severity
Secure Data Forms: Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality
A function in the Kiteworks Advanced Forms component was reachable without authentication. An unauthenticated attacker could potentially use it to carry out a limited set of internal service operations on the Kiteworks platform; it did not permit access to use
- 9.4 Critical severity
Email Protection Gateway: Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway did not sufficiently restrict which account a certificate could be assigned to. This could allow an attacker to associate a certificate with another user's account, affecting the confidentiality and integrity of that account'
- 9.3 Critical severity
Core: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) weakness in Kiteworks Core could allow an unauthenticated attacker to store crafted content that later executes arbitrary JavaScript in the authenticated session of an administrator who views the affected page. This could ha
- 7.5 High severity
Email Protection Gateway: Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality
An unauthenticated attacker could cause a file with attacker-controlled content to be written to the appliance filesystem through an administrative upload handler that did not properly authenticate the request. This did not by itself result in code execution,
- 7.2 High severity
Core: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine
A system notification template on the Kiteworks appliance was rendered by a template engine that evaluated expressions contained in the stored template body. An authenticated System Administrator could potentially store a crafted template that executed operati
- 7.2 High severity
Core: Improper Access Control
An administrative import function in Kiteworks Core did not verify that the requesting administrator was entitled to create the privileged integration credential being imported. A delegated administrator holding a single narrowly scoped administrative permissi
- 7.2 High severity
Email Protection Gateway: Improper Control of Generation of Code
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway rejected certain configuration settings, but its validation did not recognize every form in which they could be supplied. An authenticated administrator could potentially use an unrecognized form to have a file of their choos
- 7.2 High severity
Email Protection Gateway: Improper Control of Generation of Code
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway did not sufficiently validate the content of an uploaded backup, and allowed an administrator to influence how the application loaded it. An authenticated administrator could potentially use this to execute arbitrary code on
- 7.2 High severity
Core: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A user-provisioning interface in Kiteworks Core did not verify that the requesting administrator was entitled to grant the role being assigned. An administrator whose delegated permissions covered role changes alone could therefore raise an account to full sys
- 7.5 High severity
Email Protection Gateway: Improper Authentication
An identity-verification weakness in Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway allowed the gateway to act on the Kiteworks platform on behalf of a user it had not authenticated, and to provision a platform account for an identity it did not already know. A remote, un
- 7.0 High severity
Email Protection Gateway: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
An XML parser used by Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway did not restrict external entity references. Where an optional, non-default message-processing feature is enabled, a remote and unauthenticated sender could potentially use a crafted message to read file
- 8.1 High severity
Core: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) weakness in Kiteworks Core could allow an administrator holding only a single, narrowly scoped delegated permission to store crafted content that later executes arbitrary JavaScript in the authenticated session of a System A
- 8.8 High severity
Core: Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization
The sandbox that isolates document conversion on a Kiteworks appliance did not fully confine the code running inside it. Code already executing within that sandbox could potentially escape its confinement and act with the privileges of the service account that
- 7.4 High severity
Core: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
A Kiteworks appliance setup interface did not confine a user-supplied file path to its intended directory, which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to write a file to any location writable by the affected service account, potentially compromising the inte
- 8.6 High severity
Secure Data Forms: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
A form-rendering interface in the Advanced Forms component is reachable without authentication so that published forms can be displayed to anonymous visitors, but it returned more data than the form itself required. Anyone who knew the web address of a publish
- 8.8 High severity
Core: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
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 clust
- 7.2 High severity
Email Protection Gateway: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
A path traversal weakness in an optional, non-default administrative feature allowed an authenticated administrator to move files to unintended locations outside the feature's designated directory. This could potentially be leveraged to execute arbitrary code
- 7.8 High severity
Core: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
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.
- 7.2 High severity
Core: Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision
On deployments where the remote-support capability is licensed and enabled, an authenticated System Administrator who also possessed the key protecting the submitted data could redirect the underlying system's outbound support connection to a destination of th
- 7.2 High severity
Email Protection Gateway: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
-A weakness could have allowed an authenticated Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway administrator to write a file outside its intended location and cause the application to execute it, potentially resulting in remote code execution as the underlying service acc
- 9.8 Critical severity
Core: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
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 th
- 7.2 High severity
Core: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
A command injection vulnerability in Kiteworks could allow a high-privileged authenticated administrator to execute arbitrary operating-system commands as root on the affected appliance node. Successful exploitation requires an administrative account with elev
- 7.8 High severity
Core: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
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. A privileged routine did not safely handle a filesystem path that
- 7.8 High severity
Core: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
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. Exploitati
- 7.1 High severity
Secure Data Forms: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command
A SQL injection vulnerability existed in Kiteworks Secure Data Forms, where a value derived from the authenticated user's stored account data was incorporated into a database query without proper sanitization. An authenticated user could potentially influence
- 7.2 High severity
Email Protection Gateway: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
An authenticated administrator of Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway could submit a crafted serialized object to a cluster management interface that was deserialized without sufficient validation, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution in the context of
- 9.1 Critical severity
Email Protection Gateway: Improper Authentication
Improper authentication in a Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway administrative service. An administrative service in Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway did not consistently enforce administrator authentication, so the required password check could be bypassed.
- 9.1 Critical severity
Email Protection Gateway: Server-Side Request Forgery
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). A server-side request forgery (SSRF) weakness in Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to induce the gatewa
- 9.1 Critical severity
Email Protection Gateway: Server-Side Request Forgery
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). A server-side request forgery (SSRF) weakness in Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to induce the gatewa
- 9.1 Critical severity
Email Protection Gateway: Server-Side Request Forgery
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). A server-side request forgery (SSRF) weakness in Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to induce the gatewa
- 9.1 Critical severity
Email Protection Gateway: Server-Side Request Forgery
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). A server-side request forgery (SSRF) weakness in Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to induce the gatewa
- 8.1 High severity
Core: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Kiteworks Core before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data. A deserialization weakness in Kiteworks Core could, under certain conditions, allow crafted data to be deserialized unsafely, potentially resulting in remote code execution
- 8.7 High severity
Core: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Kiteworks Core before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting. A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) weakness in Kiteworks Core could allow an authenticated user to submit content that, when later viewed by another user, executes arbitrary Jav
- 7.2 High severity
Core: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Kiteworks Core before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write. An improper restriction of a user-supplied file path in a Kiteworks administrative export feature could allow an authenticated administrator to write a file to an arbitrary location on
- 7.2 High severity
Core: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command
Kiteworks Core before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to SQL Injection. A stored SQL injection vulnerability in a Kiteworks administrative reporting feature could allow an authenticated administrator to read sensitive data from the underlying database and to affec
- 7.2 High severity
Email Protection Gateway: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution. Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway allowed an authenticated administrator to import configuration whose contents were not sufficiently validated before being proces
- 7.2 High severity
Core: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
Kiteworks Core before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to OS Command Injection that allows an authenticated administrator to upload a configuration package whose contents were not sufficiently validated before being processed. A crafted package could cause the unde
- 9.1 Critical severity
Email Protection Gateway: Server-Side Request Forgery
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery. Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway performed server-side fetches of URLs contained in the message content it processed, without adequately restricting the fet
- 7.2 High severity
Email Protection Gateway: Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway before version 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Unsafe Reflection and does not sufficiently restrict the code that the mail-processing pipeline could load from an imported rule configuration. An authenticated administrator with mail-ru