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CVE-2023-44209 (GCVE-0-2023-44209)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-04 19:44 – Updated: 2026-03-05 23:49
VLAI
Summary
Local privilege escalation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Linux, macOS, Windows) before build 29051, Acronis Cyber Protect 17 (Linux, macOS, Windows) before build 41186.
Severity
5.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-19 15:31 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent Affected: unspecified , < 29051 (semver)
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Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect 17 Affected: unspecified , < 41186 (semver)
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