Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent up to 40076 on Windows default permission

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent up to 40076 on Windows. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to default permission. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-48959. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent up to 40076 on Windows. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a default permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-276. During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Local privilege escalation due to insecure file permissions. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Windows) before build 40077.

The advisory is available at security-advisory.acronis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-48959 since 05/29/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1222 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 40077 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-16868). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

VulDB Vector: 🔍
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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

VulDB Base Score: 7.0
VulDB Temp Score: 6.7
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 6.7
CNA Vector (Acronis): 🔍

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Default permission
CWE: CWE-276 / 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 Cloud Agent 40077

Timelineinfo

05/29/2025 🔍
06/04/2025 +6 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

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

CVE: CVE-2025-48959 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-48959
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-311138
EUVD: 🔍

Entryinfo

Created: 06/04/2025 14:34
Updated: 06/04/2025 15:54
Changes: 06/04/2025 14:34 (65), 06/04/2025 15:54 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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