CVE-2024-8903 Privilege escalation in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent
Local attackers can escalate privileges by manipulating active protection service settings due to unnecessary privilege assignments in the Acronis agent.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-8903?
CVE-2024-8903 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent, published on 23 Sep 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Local active protection service settings manipulation due to unnecessary privileges assignment. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Windows, macOS) before build 38565.
Weakness: CWE-250
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8903?
How do I fix CVE-2024-8903?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8903 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-8903 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8903 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xr28-hrcf-5jw6.