Local privilege escalation during installation due to improper soft link handling.

published 2023-08-31 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-49650

cvss: 7.3; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits: 0; none known

Local privilege escalation during installation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 40278, Acronis True Image OEM (Windows) before build 42575.

Patch / fix

fixed in 3

Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office 40278
Acronis Acronis True Image OEM 42575
acronis cyber_protect_home_office 40278

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-10-01)

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	7.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office
Acronis Acronis True Image OEM
acronis cyber_protect_home_office

Classification

Weakness

CWE-610 Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere
CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

security-advisory.acronis.com /advisories/SEC-3835
vendor-advisory, release-notes

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-46869
NVD CVE-2022-46869

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Summary