High severity7.3NVD Advisory· Published Mar 6, 2026· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2026-28721

Description

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

Affected products

Acronis/Cyber Protectllm-fuzzy2 versions
<41186+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <41186
- cpe:2.3:a:acronis:cyber_protect:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <17.0.41186
Acronis/Acronis Cyber Protect 16 (Linux)cpe-rescue
Range: unspecified

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

security-advisory.acronis.com/advisories/SEC-8445nvdVendor Advisory

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