CVE-2022-46869: Local privilege escalation during installation due to improper soft link handling. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office…

PriorityP338high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.24%

14.5th percentile

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.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
acronis	acronis_cyber_protect_home_office	>= unspecified < 40278	40278
acronis	acronis_true_image_oem	>= unspecified < 42575	42575
acronis	cyber_protect_home_office	< 40278	40278

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv3.07.3HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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