🛡️ CVE-2025-53899 — kiteworks-managed-file-transfer

🟠 CVSS 7.2 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-941 NVD
7.2
CVSS Score
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-53899 is classified as CWE-941: Incorrectly Specified Destination in a Communication Channel. The product creates a communication channel to initiate an outgoing request to an actor, but it does not correctly specify the intended destination for that actor.

Affected software

CVE-2025-53899 is recorded against 1 package.

  • kiteworks-managed-file-transfer (fixed in 9.1.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 29 November 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-941
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-11-29
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kiteworks-managed-file-transfer — 9.1.0

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