Local privilege escalation via DLL hijacking
Published Jan 31, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026
DLL hijacking in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent before build 39378 allows local users to gain elevated privileges on Windows. Acronis has not published the affected executable, DLL name, or search path; the CNA identifies only an untrusted DLL search. Exploitation requires existing low-privileged local access and a favorable DLL search condition, with resulting access to protected data and operations.
Summary
What happened
DLL hijacking in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent before build 39378 allows local users to gain elevated privileges on Windows. Acronis has not published the affected executable, DLL name, or search path; the CNA identifies only an untrusted DLL search. Exploitation requires existing low-privileged local access and a favorable DLL search condition, with resulting access to protected data and operations.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-24828
- Published
- Jan 31, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Vendor
- Acronis
- Product
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent
- Classifications
- CWE-426, T1574.001
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 31, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <39378
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