Medium 6.5Published Nov 28, 2025

CVE-2025-53900Kiteworks MFT has a Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 2:00 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-267
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Dec 1, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

kiteworks security-advisories kiteworks:security_advisories (from the name)	before 9.1.0	CNA record
accellion kiteworks_managed_file_transfer accellion:kiteworks_managed_file_transfer	before 9.1.0	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-gjq3-8v6p-2h6h	x-refsource-confirm, patch, third-party-advisory

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