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CVE-2024-55543: 
Acronis Cyber Protect vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A local privilege escalation vulnerability due to DLL hijacking was discovered in Acronis Cyber Protect 16 (Windows) before build 39169. The vulnerability was assigned CVE-2024-55543 and was disclosed on January 2, 2025 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a DLL hijacking issue (CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element). The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.8 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. This indicates that the vulnerability requires local access and user interaction but no privileges, and can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).

Impact

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows an attacker to escalate privileges on the affected system. The high CVSS score indicates that the vulnerability can lead to complete compromise of the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability when exploited (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in Acronis Cyber Protect 16 (Windows) build 39169. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to mitigate the vulnerability (NVD).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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