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CVE-2022-44747:
Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
Local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-44747) affects Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) versions before build 40107. The vulnerability is due to improper soft link handling in the software (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (High) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The attack requires local access, low attack complexity, low privileges, and no user interaction. The vulnerability is related to CWE-59 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access) and CWE-610 (Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere) (NVD).
Impact
If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to escalate privileges on the affected system, potentially gaining high levels of access to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) to build 40107 or later to address this vulnerability (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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