CVE-2023-45248 (GCVE-0-2023-45248)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-09 11:08
Modified
2025-06-16 17:06
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
Summary
Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Windows) before build 36497, Acronis Cyber Protect 16 (Windows) before build 37391.
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Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent Version: unspecified   ≤
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