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GHSA-XF2M-QWPV-GW8P

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-28 15:30 – Updated: 2025-08-28 15:30

Details

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.

Severity ?

7.3 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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  "id": "GHSA-xf2m-qwpv-gw8p",
  "modified": "2025-08-28T15:30:39Z",
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CVE-2025-48963 (GCVE-0-2025-48963)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-28 09:49 – Updated: 2025-08-29 03:55

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 40296.

Severity ?

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-610

Assigner

Acronis

References

URL

Tags

https://security-advisory.acronis.com/advisories/…

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Acronis	Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent	Affected: unspecified , < 40296 (semver)

Credits

@vultza (https://hackerone.com/vultza)

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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-XF2M-QWPV-GW8P

CVE-2025-48963 (GCVE-0-2025-48963)

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