VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2026-28721
Local privilege escalation due to improper soft link handling.
HIGH 7.3EPSS 0.15%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.15%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Local privilege escalation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 17 (Windows) before build 41186.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.3 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.15% probability · 5th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-610
- Affected
- acronis/cyber protect
- Source
- security@acronis.com
References
- https://security-advisory.acronis.com/advisories/SEC-8445Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.