CVE-2022-46869 Path traversal in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office
Local attackers can escalate privileges during installation via improper soft link handling in Acronis backup software.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-46869?
CVE-2022-46869 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, published on 31 Aug 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Local privilege escalation during installation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 40278, Acronis True Image OEM (Windows) before build 42575.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-46869?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office.
How do I fix CVE-2022-46869?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-46869 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2022-46869 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-46869 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office
- CVE-2023-44208 Missing authorization in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office
- CVE-2022-4418 Privilege escalation in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office
- CVE-2022-24115 Local privilege escalation due to unrestricted loading of unsigned libraries
- CVE-2023-48677 Privilege escalation in Acronis Cyber Protect 16
- CVE-2022-44732 Privilege escalation in Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9rvg-h3ph-f3v3.