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Acronis Cyber Protect for macOS: Local Privilege Escalation Risk

CVE-2026-28727
Summary

Acronis Cyber Protect for macOS versions before a certain build have a security issue that allows an attacker with local access to gain elevated privileges. This could potentially let an unauthorized user take control of your system. Update to the latest available version to fix this issue.

What to do

No fix is available yet. Check with your software vendor for updates.

Affected software
VendorProductAffected versionsFix available
acronis agent <= c25.10
acronis cyber_protect <= 17.0.41186
Original title
Local privilege escalation due to insecure Unix socket permissions. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 17 (macOS) before build 41186, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (macO...
Original description
Local privilege escalation due to insecure Unix socket permissions. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 17 (macOS) before build 41186, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (macOS) before build 41124.
nvd CVSS3.0 7.8
Vulnerability type
CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
Published: 6 Mar 2026 · Updated: 13 Mar 2026 · First seen: 6 Mar 2026