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Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent vulnerability

Local privilege escalation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Linux, macOS, Windows) before build 40296.

Published 28 Aug 2025Updated 18 Oct 20261 sources
CVSS 7.3
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What happened

Local privilege escalation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Linux, macOS, Windows) before build 40296.

Affected versions

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent: unspecified through before 40296 (semver) Fixed: See vendor advisory.

Why it matters

Review the vendor advisory and exposure of the affected product to determine operational impact.

Detection & mitigation

  • Apply vendor-provided updates or mitigations.
  • Review affected product exposure and access logs.

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