Acronis Backup Plugin for cPanel & WHM symlink

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Acronis Backup Plugin for cPanel & WHM and Backup Extension for Plesk. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to symlink. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-24832. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Acronis Backup Plugin for cPanel & WHM and Backup Extension for Plesk (version now known). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a symlink vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-61. The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently account for when the file is a symbolic link that resolves to a target outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files. Impacted is integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Arbitrary file overwrite during home directory recovery due to improper symbolic link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) before build 1.8.4.866, Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM (Linux) before build 1.9.1.892, Acronis Backup extension for Plesk (Linux) before build 1.8.7.615.

The advisory is available at security-advisory.acronis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-24832 since 01/24/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8

VulDB Base Score: 4.4
VulDB Temp Score: 4.2
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CNA Base Score: 5.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Symlink
CWE: CWE-61 / CWE-59
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

01/24/2025 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

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

CVE: CVE-2025-24832 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-24832
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-297926

Entryinfo

Created: 02/28/2025 02:50
Changes: 02/28/2025 02:50 (62)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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