CVE-2026-28727 (GCVE-0-2026-28727)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-05 23:45 – Updated: 2026-03-09 13:47
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Summary
Local privilege escalation due to insecure Unix socket permissions. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 17 (macOS) before build 41186, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (macOS) before build 41124.
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7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Product Version
Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect 17 Affected: unspecified , < 41186 (semver)
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@aiqitut (https://hackerone.com/aiqitut)
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