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CVE-2021-38086 (GCVE-0-2021-38086)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-12 13:42 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:30
VLAI
Summary
Acronis Cyber Protect 15 for Windows prior to build 27009 and Acronis Agent for Windows prior to build 26226 allowed local privilege escalation via DLL hijacking.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
https://kb.acronis.com/content/68564 x_refsource_MISC
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