CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-53900

Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

Published: Nov 29, 2025 | Modified: Dec 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Kiteworks MFT orchestrates end-to-end file transfer workflows. Prior to version 9.1.0, an unfavourable definition of roles and permissions in Kiteworks MFT on managing Connections could lead to unexpected escalation of privileges for authorized users. This issue has been patched in version 9.1.0.

Weakness

A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Kiteworks_managed_file_transfer Accellion * 9.1.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References