CVE-2023-45248 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Windows) before build 36497, Acronis Cyber Protect 16 (Windows) before build 37391.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00057.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Acronis	Agent
Microsoft	Windows

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:acronis:agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-49554	Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Windows) before build 36497, Acronis Cyber Protect 16 (Windows) before build 37391.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://security-advisory.acronis.com/advisories/SEC-6052

History

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Acronis

Published: 2023-10-09T11:08:37.009Z

Updated: 2025-06-16T17:06:45.314Z

Reserved: 2023-10-05T21:47:00.379Z

Link: CVE-2023-45248

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T20:14:19.924Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-09T12:15:10.347

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:26:38.847

Link: CVE-2023-45248

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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