CVE-2026-28721 | THREATINT

Description

Local privilege escalation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 17 (Windows) before build 41186.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-03 | Published 2026-03-05 | Updated 2026-03-09 | Assigner Acronis

HIGH: 7.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-610

Product status

Default status

unaffected

Any version before 41186

affected

Credits

@vultza (https://hackerone.com/vultza) finder

References

security-advisory.acronis.com/advisories/SEC-8445 (SEC-8445) vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-28721)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-28721)

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