VDB-238535 · CVE-2022-46869 · GCVE-0-2022-46869

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office 2021/39900/40107 on Windows Installation privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office on Windows and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Installation. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2022-46869. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office on Windows. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Installation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Local privilege escalation during installation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 40278, Acronis True Image OEM (Windows) before build 42575.

The weakness was published 09/01/2023. It is possible to read the advisory at security-advisory.acronis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-46869 since 12/09/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 40278 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Productinfo

Vendor

Acronis

Name

Cyber Protect Home Office

Version

License

commercial

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.4

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.0
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 7.8
NVD Vector: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 7.3
CNA Vector (Acronis International GmbH): 🔍

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Upgrade: Cyber Protect Home Office 40278

Timelineinfo

12/09/2022 🔍
09/01/2023 +265 days 🔍
09/01/2023 +0 days 🔍
04/10/2026 +952 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

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

CVE: CVE-2022-46869 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-46869
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-238535

Entryinfo

Created: 09/01/2023 07:46
Updated: 04/10/2026 16:37
Changes: 09/01/2023 07:46 (50), 09/29/2023 09:09 (11), 09/19/2024 23:24 (17), 04/22/2025 13:48 (3), 04/10/2026 16:37 (1)
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