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CVE-2026-102149

9.4 CRITICALpublic exploit available

Published 2026-09-30 · Updated 2026-10-01

AI risk analysis

Summary
The flaw in Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway allows an attacker to associate a certificate with another user's account, compromising the confidentiality and integrity of the account's encrypted mail and potentially enabling unauthorized access.
Exploitability
Exploitation requires access to the certificate management interface and knowledge of the target account, making it moderately difficult.
Blast radius
If exploited, the impact could be severe, affecting the confidentiality and integrity of the targeted user's email communications and potentially granting unauthorized access to their account.
Detection
No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
Prioritized remediation
Disable certificate management functionality until a patch is available or upgrade to the latest version of Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway.
auth-bypassconfidentialityintegrity

Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.

NVD description

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's encrypted mail and, where certificate-based login is enabled, potentially permitting unauthorized access to the account.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Weaknesses

CWE-306

Public exploit & PoC references

All references

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