fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2025-48963

fkie_cve-2025-48963

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-08-28 10:15

Modified

2025-08-29 16:24

Severity ?

7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@acronis.com	https://security-advisory.acronis.com/advisories/SEC-8568

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-28 09:49

Modified

2025-08-29 03:55

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

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.

References

URL

Tags

https://security-advisory.acronis.com/advisories/SEC-8568

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Acronis	Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent	Version: unspecified ≤

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