Enterprise file-sharing gateways exposed by maximum-severity flaw
Daily Cyber News: Enterprise file-sharing gateways exposed by maximum-severity flaw
Organizations using Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway face remote takeover if exposed appliances remain below version 9.4.1. Kiteworks released updates covering 126 vulnerabilities. The most serious is a maximum-severity chain that requires no login or user interaction and can let an attacker execute code before gaining full administrative control of the appliance.
Key context: The wider update also fixes 11 critical weaknesses involving authentication, account takeover and access control.
Additional detail: Nearly 400 Kiteworks instances were tracked as exposed to the internet, although their patch status was unknown.
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