Local privilege escalation via overprivileged child processes
Published Feb 4, 2022 · Updated Sep 16, 2024
Privilege escalation in affected Windows builds of four Acronis products allows local users to gain elevated privileges via child processes. The vendor states that child processes receive excessive permissions but does not identify the parent component, affected process, or permission boundary. Local low-privileged access and user interaction are required; successful exploitation grants elevated access affecting protected data and service availability.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in affected Windows builds of four Acronis products allows local users to gain elevated privileges via child processes. The vendor states that child processes receive excessive permissions but does not identify the parent component, affected process, or permission boundary. Local low-privileged access and user interaction are required; successful exploitation grants elevated access affecting protected data and service availability.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-24113
- Published
- Feb 4, 2022
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Vendor
- Acronis
- Product
- Acronis True Image
- Classifications
- CWE-276, CWE-250, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 4, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 16, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <39287
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