Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office/Agent/Cyber Protect Driver privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, Agent and Cyber Protect. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Driver. The manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2023-41743. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, Agent and Cyber Protect (version unknown). Affected is an unknown function of the component Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Local privilege escalation due to insecure driver communication port permissions. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 40278, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Windows) before build 31637, Acronis Cyber Protect 15 (Windows) before build 35979, Acronis True Image OEM (Windows) before build 42575.

The weakness was released 08/31/2023. The advisory is shared for download at security-advisory.acronis.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-41743 since 08/31/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.0

VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.5
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CNA Base Score: 8.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

08/31/2023 🔍
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04/10/2026 +953 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: security-advisory.acronis.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-41743 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-41743
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-238476

Entryinfo

Created: 08/31/2023 19:43
Updated: 04/10/2026 16:37
Changes: 08/31/2023 19:43 (48), 09/27/2023 15:24 (11), 04/10/2026 16:37 (17)
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