Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessDiscover published form URL
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DeliveryRequest form anonymously over network
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ExploitInterface returns excess data
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ExecutionParse owner profile and config from response
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ImpactAggregate PII for follow-on targeting
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires only that a form has been published in the Kiteworks Advanced/Secure Data Forms component and that the attacker knows (or enumerates) the form's public web address - the form-rendering interface is intentionally reachable by anonymous visitors, so no authentication, credentials, or user interaction are needed against a default deployment serving published forms. The limiting factors are: the attacker must know a valid published-form URL (not a fully open directory listing), and impact is capped to information disclosure of the form owner's account profile plus partial deployment configuration - no passwords, authentication tokens, or MFA secrets are returned, and there is no integrity or availability effect. |
| Impact | The vendor CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N = 8.6) is internally consistent with the description: the affected form-rendering interface is explicitly reachable without authentication (PR:N, matching 'reachable without authentication'), needs no user interaction, and the scope change (S:C) is justified because an anonymous form-viewer authority gains data belonging to a different authority - the form owner's account profile and deployment configuration. Impact is confidentiality-only (C:H, I:N, A:N), and the description meaningfully caps that impact by stating no passwords, authentication tokens, or MFA secrets were exposed, so this is disclosure of PII and config metadata rather than a credential leak that would enable direct account takeover. There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public PoC in the provided intelligence, so real-world exploitation signal is absent - this is a vendor/CISA-coordinated disclosure (reported by cisa-cg, GHSA advisory) with no evidence of active exploitation. The 8.6 is genuinely elevated by the unauthenticated network vector plus scope change rather than by impact breadth; treat it as a real but bounded priority: easy to exploit if a published form URL is known, but limited to information disclosure with no integrity/availability effect and no secret exposure. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who discovers or guesses the public web address of a published Kiteworks Advanced/Secure Data Form requests it as an anonymous visitor and observes that the response embeds far more than the form fields - the form owner's Kiteworks account profile and portions of deployment configuration. By harvesting these URLs across an organization, the attacker builds a profile of staff personal details and infrastructure settings for phishing or follow-on targeting. No authentication is required and no public exploit code is identified at time of analysis; the 'exploit' is simply reading the oversized response. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026
The anonymous form-rendering endpoint in Kiteworks' Advanced Forms / Secure Data Forms component returns more information than a published form needs, letting anyone who knows or can guess a published form's web address retrieve the form owner's Kiteworks account profile (including personal details) plus portions of the deployment's configuration settings. No authentication or user interaction is required against a default deployment that serves published forms, and the exposed data does not include passwords, authentication tokens, or MFA secrets. Scoring is CVSS 3.1 8.6 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N), driven entirely by confidentiality loss with a scope change since an unauthenticated viewer gains data belonging to a different security authority; no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch version is identified in the available input data; the definitive remediation guidance is the vendor advisory at https://github.com/kiteworks/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-hf68-855j-745c (cross-referenced in the CISA CSAF file at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/VA/white/2026/va-26-274-01.json), which should be consulted for the current fixed release before upgrading Kiteworks Secure Data Forms. Because the vulnerable path must remain anonymous by design, the practical compensating controls are to inventory and unpublish any Advanced/Secure Data Forms that are not actively needed (trade-off: previously distributed links stop working), ensure published forms use long, random, non-guessable URL slugs rather than sequential or human-readable identifiers (trade-off: existing links must be reissued), and place rate limiting, bot mitigation, or WAF rules on the form-rendering endpoint to detect and throttle sequential URL enumeration (trade-off: aggressive thresholds can block legitimate high-volume form traffic). Operators can only partially bound the disclosure, since the over-returned profile and configuration fields are generated server-side; deploying the vendor fix or a configuration that suppresses those extra fields is required to stop the leak, and until then any leaked profile data should be treated as disclosed and, where relevant, reviewed for follow-on social-engineering or phishing risk against the affected form owner.
Affected VersionsENISA
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor) in the form-rendering interface of the Kiteworks Advanced Forms component, tracked as Secure Data Forms in the vendor CPE (cpe:2.3:a:kiteworks:secure_data_forms). By design that interface is reachable without authentication (PR:N) because it must display published forms to anonymous visitors, but when rendering a form it assembles and returns a response object broader than the form definition itself: the form owner's account profile and fragments of the deployment configuration are included. This is effectively an over-fetching / object-property-exposure pattern in which a public, low-privilege code path serializes data that belongs to a higher-privilege authority - the reason the assessed vector carries S:C, since the anonymized form-viewer authority obtains resources outside its scope. Network reachability and low attack complexity (AV:N/AC:L) plus no user interaction (UI:N) make the defect trivially exploitable once a valid published-form URL is known; the confidentiality impact is rated High while integrity and availability are unaffected.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Unauthenticated remote reach to published forms (PR:N/AV:N/AC:L), scope change as anon viewer obtains another account's/deployment data (S:C), confidentiality-only with no secrets (C:H, I/A:N).
Primary rating from Vendor (cisa-cg).
CVSS VectorVendor: cisa-cg
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2DescriptionCVE.org
A form-rendering interface in the Advanced Forms component is reachable without authentication so that published forms can be displayed to anonymous visitors, but it returned more data than the form itself required. Anyone who knew the web address of a published form could potentially retrieve the form owner's Kiteworks account profile, including personal details, along with parts of the deployment's configuration settings; no passwords, authentication tokens, or multi-factor secrets were exposed.
Technical POC Analysis
Bug class: CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor), with the advisory additionally mapping CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function).
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Executive ViewAI
Kiteworks Advanced Forms / Secure Data Forms contains a high-severity unauthenticated information disclosure (CVE-2026-102121) that can expose form owners' account profile details and portions of deployment configuration to anyone who knows a published form URL. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and no passwords, authentication tokens, or MFA secrets are exposed, but the flaw affects default deployments serving published forms and creates privacy, reconnaissance, and compliance risk for organizations using Kiteworks for secure data exchange.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: disable anonymous access to published forms, take non-essential Advanced Forms/Secure Data Forms offline, require authentication or IP allow-listing, restrict public reachability of the form-rendering endpoint, apply WAF rules to block URL enumeration, and monitor logs for suspicious access to published form URLs.
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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